UK Cyber Spies Plan AI ‘Lab’ to Counter Hostile State Threats
- New research center would coordinate across ministries
- Riots sparked in part by online misinformation, fueled by bots
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UK spies are stepping up efforts to tackle cyber and artificial intelligence threats from hostile foreign states, including the sort of online manipulation that helped foment rioting across the country in the past 10 days.
GCHQ, the UK’s national security listening post, is working with Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s administration on a “Laboratory for AI Security Research,” people familiar with the matter said. The new body would unify work by government departments and intelligence officials to study how Britain’s enemies might use AI offensively, they said. GCHQ did not immediately respond to a request for comment.