MI5 warns artificial intelligence is “supercharging” threats to Britain’s national security [SOUND]

# Britain’s domestic security service, MI5, says threats from foreign adversaries have quadrupled in the last decade, primarily from Russia, Iran and China. The plots include sabotage, assassination attempts, cyber-attacks and arson. Britain arrested over 50 individuals in the past year over Iranian-linked operations. MI5 head Ken McCallum warned that artificial intelligence is “supercharging” threats to Britain’s national security. He says the biggest threat from the misuse of AI is extremist groups using the technology to harness new and existing bioweapons: