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MI5 chief warns of threats to UK from Russia, Iran and AI. , Security correspondent , Reporting from Thames House and Adam Goldsmith Sir Ken McCallum warned MI5 was now facing a situation in which "our terrorism and state threats operational missions are pretty much of equal scale" as threats from foreign adversaries have quadrupled over the last decade.
What we know
He used an annual speech at the domestic intelligence service's headquarters in London to also warn of rising threats from Iran and "extreme right-wing terrorism". Sir Ken added that MI5 had "caught terrorists seeking to exploit AI", including by integrating the technology with drones – and warned the UK must stay ahead of the emerging threats like new bioweapons. The. MI5 chief said Russia was waging hybrid warfare while carefully avoiding triggering a joint response from Nato, a line which he said the Kremlin would be "foolish to cross". Sir Ken said Russia had stopped short of "conventional conflict" against the military alliance, and is instead trying to unsettle European countries while its progress in its full-scale invasion of Ukraine is "minimal and horrifically costly". He said MI5's successes in identifying and expelling Russian spies from the UK had left the Kremlin dependent on paying proxies for attempted attacks. He continued: "With its traditional covert footprint eviscerated by almost 1,000 expulsions since the invasion, the Kremlin's global toolkit is weak. So we see them scrambling to pay criminals to do their bidding." He added: "These are not the actions of a great power with the strategic upper hand.".
Originally reported by BBC News.
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