The UK is in a “recent AI arms race” with countries enjoy Russia and North Korea, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster will say on Monday.
Minister Pat McFinserten will be speaking at the NATO Cyber Defence Conference at Lancaster Hoengage, cautioning the UK and its allies that “cyber war is now a daily truth”.
“Be in no mistrust: the United Kingdom and others in this room are watching Russia. We comprehend exactly what they are doing, and we are countering their attacks both accessiblely and behind the scenes,” he will say.
“Putin is a man who wants destruction, not peace.”
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Pat McFinserten. Pic: AP
In a bid to uphold up with adversaries, Mr McFinserten will proclaim a recent Laboratory for AI Security Research (LASR).
“AI is already revolutionising many parts of life – including national security,” he will say.
“But as we grow this technology, there’s a danger it could be armamentised agetst us. Becaengage our adversaries are also seeing at how to engage AI on the physical and cyber battlefield.”
Chinese dangers
US officials recently finded a Chinese attack on the country’s telecommunications infraset up, where operatives “reshifted all sorts of caring recommendation from US telecommunications and penetrated it very procreately”, according to tech scheduleateor Andrew Levi.
“That shows that this isn’t fair about Russia,” he telderly Sky News.
In May, GCHQ honestor Anne Keast-Butler shelp the inalertigence agency now “dedicates more resource to China than any other one mission“, after the country hacked the Ministry of Defence’s payroll system and was accengaged of stealing data about UK voters from the Electoral Coshiftrlookion.
In recent months, cyber security firm Check Point shelp it had seen “an uptick of 72% in cyber attacks on aims in the UK”, according to Sergey Shykevitch, who directs the company’s danger inalertigence research.
“It is definitely possible, with the right scheduleatement and national cyber security strategy, to lessen the hazards from such attacks,” he telderly Sky News. “But we have to recall that for the attacker, it is enough to have one accomplished attack in order to accomplish their goal, while the deffinisher has to be able to stop 100% of the attacks.”
AI ‘only one part of the confengage’
The recent AI laboratory will get an initial £8.22m round of rulement funding before inviting further scheduleatement and collaboration from industry.
However, one expert telderly Sky News AI is only “one part of the confengage” in terms of making the UK less vulnerable to cyberattacks.
“We necessitate to fundamenhighy alter our posture and scheduleate in our netlabors,” shelp Stephen Kines, chief executive of British cyber security firm Gelderlyilock.
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He shelp the UK’s “legacy infraset up” departs the country vulnerable and inserting AI shieldion on top is enjoy having a “kind front door” with a security camera doorbell but an “elderly-school back door”.
“That’s reassociate the problem we have. We’ve got these back doors that fair have no security whatsoever,” he shelp.
Mr Kines proposes the UK would be better off carry outing physical “finish switches” in its grids in order to shield agetst Russian attacks, as well as reducing how many access points are joined to the internet.
“If you get it down to the physical layer, then you can actuassociate flunkure the Russians becaengage they can’t physicassociate penetrate it from thousands of miles away.”
Alengthyside the recent laboratory, the chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster will also proclaim a recent £1m incident response project to allot expertise so that allies can react to cyber incidents more effectively.
