AI is a major security threat, spy chiefs warn cabinet
McCallum said AI is already supercharging cyber threats and could help terrorists develop bioweapons, as MI5 launches a new assessment centre.
- On Tuesday, MI5 Director General Ken McCallum warned that artificial intelligence has the "potential to change the stakes" on bioweapons, stating these technological risks are "real."
- To address these challenges, McCallum announced the launch of a new AI Threat Assessment Centre , drawing expertise to separate "bluster from the realities."
- State threat caseloads have quadrupled over the past 10 years, with McCallum labeling Russia "aggressor number one" and the agency devoting more resources than at any time since the Cold War.
- Extreme right-wing terrorism has pushed Britain's threat level to "severe," while Iran attempted to "expand their hybrid campaign" with more than 50 arrests in Iran-linked operations this year.
- Addressing the public directly, the Director General issued a rallying cry for increased societal resilience, noting that community cohesion has become a vital "front line" against those aiming to sow division.
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“Human history has given us no experience of facing an actor which is smarter than we are. Is capable of out-thinking us.” Sir Ken McCallum, director general of MI5, said this about AI on 13 October. He was giving his annual threat update at MI5’s London headquarters. In the same speech, he announced a new […] This story continues at The Next Web
Artificial intelligence (AI) could provide terrorists with access to biological weapons or generate new pathogens if technology security measures fail, warned the head of the British intelligence service MI5, Ken McCallum, on Tuesday broadcasts PA Media/dpa.
Head of MI5 Ken McKallum assessed the threats posed to Britain by Russia, Iran, and terrorism, and he warned of the use of I.I. to attack and build biological weapons.
Ken McCallum warns of growing 'threats from Iran,' extreme right-wing terrorism, and potential use of artificial intelligence by extremist groups to develop bioweapons
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