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• Tuesday, Oct 13Week 42

  In his annual threat update, the MI5 director general said the misuse case he would weigh most is AI's potential to change the stakes on existing or even new bioweapons, and announced a new AI Threat Assessment Centre.

  Speaking at Thames House, McCallum said AI is already supercharging the cybersecurity contest between attackers and defenders and that MI5 had caught terrorists seeking to exploit AI to improve their reconnaissance and attack methodologies. He called the bioweapons risk not yet realised and said low-sophistication actors could gain the capability if these guardrails do not function as intended. The new centre will work with the AI Security Institute.

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  Search summaries say he also raised the alignment problem, but that wording was not in the pages opened. The MI5 speech page (403) and ITV's report could not be opened. Not on the roster; added as a guest.

  Evening Standard via Yahoo News UK, WIRED