The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) published a report strongly suggesting the use of AI in combatting the UK’s adversaries.  The report says that adversaries are likely to use the technology for attacks in cyberspace and on the political system.

AI will be needed to detect and stop online cyberattacks before they present themselves.

But AI is unlikely to predict who might be about to be involved in serious crimes, such as terrorism – and will not replace human judgement.

The report is based on unprecedented access to a majority of the UK’s intelligence community, and was commissioned by GCHQ security service.

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Future threats to British intelligence could include deep fake images and video to manipulate opinion and elections.

In addition, cyber attacks and malware may cause havoc for systems handling sensitive data.

Attacks may also use drones to carry out terrorism and other attacks.

In these situations, adversaries will be using AI themselves, meaning the same software could be used to counter it.

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Alexander Babuta, one of the authors of the report, said that it’s a necessary step for intelligence agencies to adopt AI.

They wrote: “Adoption of AI is not just important to help intelligence agencies manage the technical challenge of information overload.

“It is highly likely that malicious actors will use AI to attack the UK in numerous ways, and the intelligence community will need to develop new AI-based defence measures.”

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All three of the UK’s intelligence agencies have made the use of technology and data a priority for the future.

The new head of MI5, Ken McCallum, has said one of his priorities will be to make greater use of technology, including machine learning.

However, the authors believe that AI will be of only “limited value” in “predictive intelligence” in fields such as counter-terrorism.

Acts such as terrorism are too infrequent to provide sufficiently large historical datasets to look for patterns, leading to AI being of little use in these situations.

Privacy advocates fear that AI will require collecting and analysing far larger amounts of data from ordinary people, creating a new level of intrusion into privacy.

The authors of the report believe new rules will be needed on access to data, but overall, they say it will be important not to become over-occupied with the potential downsides of the use of technology.

Mr Babuta argues: “There is a risk of stifling innovation if we become overly-focused on hypothetical worst-case outcomes and speculations over some dystopian future AI-driven surveillance network.

“Legitimate ethical concerns will be overshadowed unless we focus on likely and realistic uses of AI in the short-to-medium term.”

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