India, Feb. 13 -- Gartner, Inc. has warned that, by 2028, a misconfigured artificial intelligence (AI) system within cyber-physical systems (CPS) could lead to the shutdown of national critical infrastructure in a G20 country.

Gartner defines CPS as engineered systems that integrate sensing, computation, control, networking and analytics to interact with the physical world, including human operators. The term encompasses operational technology (OT), industrial control systems (ICS), industrial automation and control systems (IACS), the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), as well as robots, drones and other Industrie 4.0 technologies.

According to Wam Voster, Vice President Analyst at Gartner, the next major infrastructure failure may ...