UK to use AI to detect foreign threats
Artificial intelligence will be used in conjunction with traditional spying techniques, a UK government minister said
Looking across the river Thames to the MI6 Building at Vauxhall © Getty Images / Loop Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
The UK’s intelligence services are set to use information compiled by artificial intelligence to help detect foreign threats that might be overlooked by humans, according to plans outlined by security minister Tom Tugendhat.
In a column published in The Telegraph on Wednesday, Tugendhat said a new government department – the Open Source Intelligence Hub (OSINT) – will use information gathered from open sources to assist its more traditional intelligence services, MI5 and MI6.
Formal plans, including the scope an...










