Artificial intelligence (AI) will pain a “whole swathe” of the UK economy before ultimately providing a net benefit, the chief technology officer of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has said.

The greatest under-appreciated AI-driven cyber threat on the horizon is models learning to find weak spots in digital spheres, Ollie Whitehouse added.

Companies that cannot effectively use AI for cyber defence will “feel the brunt” of models revealing these vulnerabilities – and this will be “quite a painful correction”, he said at a cyber security start-up event at the National Theatre , central London , on Thursday.

Meanwhile, the UK’s AI Security Institute (AISI) is focusing on the danger of advance AI creating “chemical and biological threats, cyber capabilities and autonomous sy

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