The UK could possibly be below risk from synthetic intelligence weapons owned by China, although these weapons could not even exist, an professional has claimed.
It could possibly be a case that Chinese operatives are pulling the wool over our eyes, with the “threatening” urgency of their tech developments merely in place to scare western powers, Professor Anthony Glees has claimed.
Speaking with the Daily Star on the “technologically advanced” weapons, the professional insisted if the nation did have AI to fret about, it might not but be able to trigger catastrophic injury. .
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Enemies to the UK are in want of “two kinds of intel”, Professor Glees defined, and it might appear Chinese and Russian operatives are eager to attempt their luck at getting their palms on closely-guarded data.
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Professor Glees defined: “There are two kinds of intel our enemies want from us (and we from our enemies and potential enemies). First, what are our military capabilities and second, what do we intend to do with them.”
Using AI to reply each is doable however for the likes of China, it might simply be a smokescreen for his or her actual intent and skills. Professor Glees added: “[What we intend to do is] a question of judgement, based on the available evidence.
“AI cannot do that. So in flagging AI, the Chinese are threatening us and making an attempt to place us off the scent of what we needs to be doing. In brief, sure, the Chinese are technologically superior however they’re simply making an attempt to place the frighteners on us over AI.
“I don’t think MI6 should be asked to become IT nerds. We should indeed be counting tanks and understanding what missiles there are – traditional espionage tradecraft – not worrying about A1 and facial recognition (which the Chinese do use but so what?).”
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Professor Glees maintains essentially the most essential and profitable type of spying remains to be the normal espionage, which is allegedly carried out by Russian, Iranian and Chinese operatives in a sleepy UK village.
He added: “In my opinion, maybe computers can store much more data than an individual human brain but they cannot think and reason like a human. And successful espionage when it comes to the intentions of our enemies is about pitting one human brain against another.
“Actually our enemies know this which is why they stick with it spying within the quaint manner in addition to amassing infinite zillions of items of information.”
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