MI6 officers need to “master technology” and the power of artificial intelligence to combat the increasing threats Britain faces, the new head of the Secret Intelligence Service has said in her first public speech.
Blaise Metreweli, the first female to lead MI6, has started her job by highlighting the complexity of global threats from technology to terrorism and information manipulation.
As former head of the service’s quirky innovation department known as ‘Q’, she understands the huge importance of AI and other advances that will affect the spy world.
MI6 headquarters in Vauxhall, London. AP
“Mastery of technology must infuse everything we do, not just in our labs, but in the field, in our tradecraft and, even more importantly, in the mindset of every officer,” she said on Monday from a speech at MI6 headquarters in Vaux
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