MI6 and CIA using generative AI to combat tech-driven threat actors
(2024/09/09)
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CIA director Bill Burns and UK Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) chief Richard Moore have for the first time penned a joint opinion piece in which the two spookmasters reveal their agencies have adopted generative AI.
"We are now using AI, including generative AI, to enable and improve intelligence activities – from summarization to ideation to helping identify key information in a sea of data," the pair [1]wrote in the Financial Times.
"We are training AI to help protect and 'red team' our own operations to ensure we can still stay secret when we need to. We are using cloud technologies so our brilliant data scientists can make the most of our data, and we are partnering with the most innovative companies in the US, UK and around the world," they added.
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The pair also [3]chatted with FT editor Roula Khalaf on Saturday, and in that session Moore divulged that MI6 uses large language models to navigate the vast amount of extremist content on the internet and decipher the latest criminal vernacular so that its case officers can believably engage with that community.
[4]FBI, cyber-cops zap ~1K Russian AI disinfo Twitter bots
[5]Pro-Iran groups lay groundwork for 'chaos and violence' as US election meddling attempts intensify
[6]US charges Chinese nationals with cyber-spying on pretty much everyone for Beijing
[7]Beijing's attack gang Volt Typhoon was a false flag inside job conspiracy: China
Together, the intelligence bosses pointed out that they serve at a time when technology presents unique challenges that mean the international order is "under threat in a way we haven't seen since the Cold War."
The Ukraine war has highlighted how technology, when deployed alongside traditional weaponry, "can alter the course of war," according to Moore and Burns.
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The pair pronounced that the conflict has seen satellite imagery, drone technology, high and low sophistication cyber warfare, social media, open source software and intelligence, uncrewed aerial and seaborne vehicles and information operations combine at an "incredible pace and scale."
But beyond Ukraine, the CIA and SIS bosses stressed that they continue to collaborate on disrupting both [10]Russia's disinformation campaigns and its "reckless campaign of sabotage across Europe."
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Meanwhile, China represents "the principal intelligence and geopolitical challenge of the 21st century," wrote Moore and Burns.
Burns told Khalaf the CIA tripled its budget over the past three years, to address technology theft and similar security issues from China. The "China Challenge" now accounts for 20 percent of the agency's overall budget.
"We're devoting a lot of focus and I can safely predict we'll continue to do that over the next decade," asserted Burns. ®
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[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=rp5PeoAW6mI
[4] https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/09/russian_ai_bot_farm/
[5] https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/09/iran_state_groups_lay_groundwork/
[6] https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/25/china_apt31_charges/
[7] https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/19/volt_typhoon_china_theory/
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"We are now using AI, including generative AI, to enable and improve intelligence activities – from summarization to ideation to helping identify key information in a sea of data," the pair [1]wrote in the Financial Times.
"We are training AI to help protect and 'red team' our own operations to ensure we can still stay secret when we need to. We are using cloud technologies so our brilliant data scientists can make the most of our data, and we are partnering with the most innovative companies in the US, UK and around the world," they added.
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The pair also [3]chatted with FT editor Roula Khalaf on Saturday, and in that session Moore divulged that MI6 uses large language models to navigate the vast amount of extremist content on the internet and decipher the latest criminal vernacular so that its case officers can believably engage with that community.
[4]FBI, cyber-cops zap ~1K Russian AI disinfo Twitter bots
[5]Pro-Iran groups lay groundwork for 'chaos and violence' as US election meddling attempts intensify
[6]US charges Chinese nationals with cyber-spying on pretty much everyone for Beijing
[7]Beijing's attack gang Volt Typhoon was a false flag inside job conspiracy: China
Together, the intelligence bosses pointed out that they serve at a time when technology presents unique challenges that mean the international order is "under threat in a way we haven't seen since the Cold War."
The Ukraine war has highlighted how technology, when deployed alongside traditional weaponry, "can alter the course of war," according to Moore and Burns.
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The pair pronounced that the conflict has seen satellite imagery, drone technology, high and low sophistication cyber warfare, social media, open source software and intelligence, uncrewed aerial and seaborne vehicles and information operations combine at an "incredible pace and scale."
But beyond Ukraine, the CIA and SIS bosses stressed that they continue to collaborate on disrupting both [10]Russia's disinformation campaigns and its "reckless campaign of sabotage across Europe."
[11]
Meanwhile, China represents "the principal intelligence and geopolitical challenge of the 21st century," wrote Moore and Burns.
Burns told Khalaf the CIA tripled its budget over the past three years, to address technology theft and similar security issues from China. The "China Challenge" now accounts for 20 percent of the agency's overall budget.
"We're devoting a lot of focus and I can safely predict we'll continue to do that over the next decade," asserted Burns. ®
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[1] https://www.ft.com/content/252d7cc6-27de-46c0-9697-f3eb04888e70
[2] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_software/aiml&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=2&c=2Zt7HQyNOTMolAxtMZcigiwAAAUE&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=rp5PeoAW6mI
[4] https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/09/russian_ai_bot_farm/
[5] https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/09/iran_state_groups_lay_groundwork/
[6] https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/25/china_apt31_charges/
[7] https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/19/volt_typhoon_china_theory/
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CowHorseFrog
When have they ever cared ?
The US top brass today is as yellow as ever, they could support and pressure policy makers to allow Ukraine to use western weapons on Russian soil so they could reduce Russia's ability to attack and kill civilian targets in Ukraine, but they ...
you know the rest....
And there it is .... the Enigmatic Manic Problem not solved feeding an expanding vulnerability
amanfromMars 1
MI6 and CIA using generative AI to combat tech-driven threat actors
That’s all very novel and informative, and even encouraging, but whenever reactive do tech-driven threat actors always lead counter-intelligence operations/spooky remote actions at a distance. And that is not a question.
Might I suggest alternative innovative red team partnerships with leadership more than just able to alter the courses that lead to wars ..... for that is surely exactly what is future needed and so evidently presently AWOL/MIA in those businesses whose survival depend upon them having an enemy to confront and try to defeat in with combat.
O'Reg Inalsin
You mean like Alan Turing Et. Al. at Bletchley Park? While he wasn't at the top of the Military ladder, he was appreciated by those at the top.
Secret generative AI cloud technologies
Anonymous Coward
D'oh!
"The Ukraine war has highlighted how technology, when deployed alongside traditional weaponry, "can alter the course of war," according to Moore and Burns."
I often wonder if those at the top of the Military ladder think of war as a king of oxbridge exercise in strategy as opposed to the endless theatre of misery that it must be for those at the bottom?