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AI Could 'Change the Stakes' on Bioweapons: UK Spy Chief
McCallum said AI could help terrorists develop biological weapons and said MI5 has launched a new centre to assess emerging risks.
- 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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The head of the United Kingdom's (UK) domestic intelligence agency warned on Tuesday that artificial intelligence (AI) is affecting the country's security and could increase the threat of biological weapons.
AI could 'change the stakes' on bioweapons: UK spy chief
"Today AI is already supercharging the cybersecurity contest between attackers and defenders," Ken McCallum, MI5 director general, said in his annual threat briefing. Artificial intelligence technology had the "potential to change the stakes on existing or even new bioweapons", he warned in his speech at the agency's headquarters on the banks of the river Thames. He announced that MI5 had launched this year a new AI Threat Assessment Centre, hou…
·Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
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