MI5 Chief warns of growing terror AI threat as right-wing extremism reaches children as young as 13
McCallum said 78 attacks on Muslim places of worship were tracked last year, and MI5 is creating a new centre to assess AI threats.
- On Tuesday, MI5 Director General Sir Ken McCallum warned that anti-migrant and anti-Muslim extremists are increasingly turning to terrorist violence, prompting the UK to upgrade its terrorism threat level to 'severe'.
- McCallum reported a 'most marked trend' over the past year where anti-immigration and anti-Muslim grievances are 'tipping into terrorist intent,' with perpetrators skewing young and 'driven by the internet.'
- Data from the British Muslim Trust shows one mosque in Britain is attacked every five days, with 78 verified incidents in the last year; recent unrest includes attacks on asylum seeker housing in Thetford, Norfolk, and the Marriott in Portsmouth.
- Beyond extremism, the spy chief warned that terrorists and hostile states could exploit AI to develop bioweapons, use 'AI-enabled drones,' and produce 'propaganda and radicalising material tailored to the individual.'
- The Government is creating an AI threat assessment centre to 'separate the bluster from the realities' of technological risks; McCallum also named Russia as 'aggressor number one' to UK security.
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