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AI minister cautions 'likely' UK's cyber defences will be breached
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The UK's AI minister has warned it is "likely, if not inevitable" the country's cyber defences will at some point be breached.
Key facts
- On 9 September, Evan Hubinger, a top safety researcher at Anthropic, warned in a post on X that AI is advancing so quickly he believed there is a greater than 10% chance it "could kill all humans
- Nuala Polo, UK Public Policy Lead at the Ada Lovelace Institute, said the announcement committed the government to "little
- AISI began evaluating risks of the latest frontier AI models, before their public release, shortly after it was established in November 2023
- Microsoft president Brad Smith recently told the BBC the institute had helped cement the UK as the country best-placed to drive forward global regulation
Summary
Speaking at a press conference, Kanishka Narayan pointed to an incident of a rogue OpenAI agent hacking an Australian government website in June. He said while no medical records are known to have been accessed in the attack, the incident should still "concern us". Narayan said the government plans to put advanced AI to work to combat the threat, as he set out how the government plans to prepare for any serious future incidents. The minister said the move would build on two existing pilots which have helped identify and fix over 1,000 vulnerabilities across government systems.