UK Cyberspying Chief Calls AI 'an Unstoppable Force' and Warns About Russia

'The risk of miscalculation is as high as I’ve ever seen it,' said Anne Keast-Butler in a speech at a World War II code-breaking center near London.

UK Cyberspying Chief Calls AI 'an Unstoppable Force' and Warns About Russia
Photo of Director of GCHQ Anne Keast-Butler on Wednesday, May 27, 2026, by Jacob King/AP

BLETCHLEY, England, May 31, 2026 (AP) — Artificial intelligence is “an unstoppable force” that is being weaponized in ways that fall just short of traditional warfare, the U.K. cyberspying chief warned Wednesday.

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Anne Keast-Butler, director of the communications intelligence agency GCHQ, said that Britain and its allies are in “a space between peace and war” as Russia increases its “daily hybrid activity” against the West — even as Russian combat deaths in Ukraine approach 500,000.

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