UK: Burnham Announces New Counter-Disinformation Agency, Seeks Global AI Standards
The centre will work with intelligence agencies, police and tech firms as the UK warns AI will multiply hostile disinformation threats.
- On Tuesday, Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced at the United Nations General Assembly that the UK will establish a National Centre for Information Defence to detect, attribute, and disrupt hostile state information attacks, including AI-driven deepfakes.
- Burnham cited an "industrial-scale assault" on British institutions, alleging the Kremlin spends around £1.3 billion annually on information manipulation and warning that artificial intelligence now multiplies threats previously targeting the 2019 general election.
- Defence Secretary Wes Streeting stated the unit, led by the Office for the Prime Minister and Cabinet, will collaborate with intelligence agencies, police, and social media platforms to "mobilise trusted voices across civil society."
- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov dismissed the announcement as "short-sighted," while Reform UK leader Nigel Farage called it a "Labour Ministry of Truth." Defence Secretary Streeting insisted the government is "not interested in policing domestic political dissent."
- Burnham pledged to champion global AI safety standards during Britain's G20 Presidency next year and announced a new AI defence partnership with the United States, aligning with a 10-year resilience strategy to be unveiled later this year.
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A world where "the public find it hard to separate fact from fiction, propaganda from reality, is a dangerous place for a democracy to be," Defence Secretary Wes Streeting told BBC Radio 4. The new centre will "mobilise trusted voices across civil society", he added. Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced plans for the new National Centre for Information Defence in his speech at the UN gathering of world leaders on Tuesday. "In recent years we ha…
GREAT Britain is establishing a National Center for Information Defense (NCID) to combat disinformation and deepfake content spread by countries such as Russia, Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced.
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