MI5 opens an AI threat centre as OpenAI tells MPs more incidents may come

What happened

In the same speech, he announced a new AI Threat Assessment Centre, known as AITAC . Sir Ken McCallum, director general of MI5, said this about AI on 13 October.

He was giving his annual threat update at MI5’s London headquarters. UK MI5 opens an AI threat centre as OpenAI tells MPs more incidents may come Ken McCallum says terrorists are already trying to use AI, and bioweapons worry him most. OpenAI is an artificial intelligence company based in San Francisco.

The same day, OpenAI told MPs more rogue AI incidents may come to light. He also said MI5 now devotes more resources to countering state threats than it did during the Cold War.

Its state-threat caseload has quadrupled over the past decade, he said. A centre to ‘separate the bluster’ AITAC sits inside MI5.

It draws on experts from the AI Security Institute, the National Crime Agency and the National Cyber Security Centre. Its job is to “separate the bluster from the realities”, McCallum said.