#Breaking: Following this week’s #AISafetySummit, our @GCHQ Director, #AnneKeast-Butler,spoke to @gordoncorera for @bbcnews about how we’re using #AI

The risks from artificial intelligence (AI) are unknown even to GCHQ, its director has told the BBC.

In her first interview since taking over the UK’s largest intelligence agency, Anne Keast-Butler said AI could amplify existing threats and create new risks.

She said the uncertain nature of the risks made international collaboration vital.Ms Keast-Butler was speaking after attending the UK’s first AI summit.

The two-day gathering on artificial intelligence safety was held at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, home to Britain’s code-breakers during World War II.

While war-time Bletchley’s work was secret, its modern-day successor, GCHQ, now operates at least partly in the public eye with the intelligence agency’s new director mingling with tech heads and foreign officials, including from China, at this week’s summit.

And AI brought two main concerns, Anne Keast-Butler told the BBC in an exclusive interview. One was the way it will amplify existing problems.

“Bad people will always want to use the latest technology,” she said, pointing to the way in which AI is already being used to generate images of child-abuse and make it easier to carry out cyber-attacks and steal data.

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