The writer is the former director of cyber at GCHQ and now works as a consultant on technology and leadershipSir Richard Moore, the head of UK intelligence agency MI6, argued in a speech this week that whatever the benefits of artificial intelligence, nothing will replace the “human factor” of espionage — the unique bond of trust between agents overseas and the officers who work with them. On the other hand, AI has huge potential to boost spies’ operations as security threats proliferate. In a world where information is ever more contested, what might it mean to have an augmented — or even artificial — intelligence system at the heart of national security?
本文作者曾任英國政府通信總部(GCHQ)網絡總監,目前擔任技術和領導力方面的顧問