{"id":26294,"date":"2023-09-10T00:23:49","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T00:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/belalcazar.org\/?p=26294"},"modified":"2023-09-10T00:23:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T00:23:49","slug":"ai-could-carry-out-a-biological-attack-on-nhs-and-cause-covid-scale-disruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belalcazar.org\/world-news\/ai-could-carry-out-a-biological-attack-on-nhs-and-cause-covid-scale-disruption\/","title":{"rendered":"AI could carry out a biological attack on NHS and cause Covid-scale disruption"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robots could hack the NHS and cause disruption on the scale of the Covid pandemic, the new AI tsar has warned.<\/p>\n

Ian Hogarth says among the biggest risks facing his \u00a3100million Frontier AI task force, which works to protect the public from dangerous artificial intelligence, is the potential the technology could cripple the health service or carry out a \u201cbiological attack\u201d.<\/p>\n

He also fears the tech could be used to design new diseases and it is getting better by the day, which lowers the barriers to \u201cperpetrating some kind of cyber attack or cyber crime\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Ian said the UK needed to collaborate with countries around the world including China to try and prevent attacks,\u201d adding: \u201cIt\u2019s just like pandemics. It\u2019s the sort of thing where you can\u2019t go it alone.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe kind of risks we are paying most attention to are augmented national security risks.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThese are fundamentally global risks. And in the same way we collaborate with China in aspects of biosecurity and cyber security, I think there is a real value in international collaboration around the larger scale risks.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cA huge number of people in technology right now are trying to develop AI systems that are superhuman at writing code…That technology is getting better and better by the day.<\/p>\n

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