MI5 announces AI Threat Assessment Centre (AITAC), flags bioweapons as top AI misuse risk
HaydnBelfield · x · 2026-10-13
MI5 Director General Ken McCallum announced a new AI Threat Assessment Centre (AITAC) in his annual threat assessment.
He flagged AI's potential to change the stakes on existing or new bioweapons as the misuse case he'd attach greatest weight to — not yet realised, but the top concern. The move signals intelligence agencies systematically folding AI into national threat assessment.
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