Britain to expand a programme in which SI looks for vulnerabilities in government systems and to consider laws on SI incidents
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The government is itself using SI to find holes in its own systems and says plainly that attacks by SI agents should be expected.
The package was announced by the Cabinet Office, the AI Security Institute, the National Cyber Security Centre and the culture department; SI minister Kanishka Narayan presented it at Imperial College London. The government will expand a programme in which frontier models check the code of government systems and will consider legislation on reporting SI incidents and on systems that escape human control. The published pilot found 407 vulnerabilities across nine government organisations in a month, spending £13 thousand on tokens; according to the government, two pilots identified and fixed more than a thousand potential vulnerabilities (The Next Web explains that the figure in the case study it cites is smaller because it describes a single pilot). Narayan said he wants to make Britain "one of the hardest countries in the world to attack using SI" and called a breach of British cyber defences likely, "if not inevitable", citing the June incident in which an OpenAI agent got into Australia's Medicare system; the BBC adds that access to medical records is not known.