Intelligence summit told terror groups or hostile states may seek to use AI to build bombs or disrupt elections
The MI5 director general, Ken McCallum , and the FBI director, Christopher Wray, at a press conference in London in 2022.The MI5 director general, Ken McCallum , and the FBI director, Christopher Wray, at a press conference in London in 2022.
Wray said terror groups had sought to use “AI to circumvent safeguards built into some of the AI infrastructure” to “do searches for, you know, how to build a bomb … or ways to obfuscate their searches for how to build the bomb”. McCallum said he believed that some of the security risks relating to artificial intelligence would be discussed at Rishi Sunak’s global AI summit at the beginning of November, and that the industry was sensitive to the topic.
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