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MI6 chief bats for private tech firms’ role to tech firms to check cyber threats

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MI6 chief has called upon fellow spies to give up their deep-rooted secrecy and seek help from tech firms to combat fast-moving cyber threats

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The current scenario is certainly not abstract from the popular James Bond movie plot, but very near to reality. Britain's known spy agency chief has called upon fellow spies to give up their deep-rooted secrecy and seek help from tech firms to combat fast-moving cyber threats.

MI6 chief Richard Moore says the agency has to “become more open to stay secret” in a world of destabilizing technological changes. Moore plans to set out his view of current threats Tuesday in his first public speech since becoming head of the Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, in October 2020.

According to extracts released by the government, Moore feels that the disruptive potential of and other rapidly developing technologies “is a white-hot focus for MI6.”

“According to some assessments, we may experience more technological progress in the next 10 years than in the last century, with a disruptive impact equal to the industrial revolution,” Moore feels. “As a society, we have yet to internalize this stark fact and its potential impact on global geopolitics.”

“Our adversaries are pouring money and ambition into mastering artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and synthetic biology because they know that mastering these technologies will give them leverage,” Moore is likely to reiterate.

To keep up, British spies “are now pursuing partnerships with the tech community to help develop world-class technologies to solve our biggest mission problems.”
“Unlike Q in the Bond movies, we cannot do it all in-house,” Moore added, referring to the fictional MI6 gadget-maker in the James Bond 007 thrillers.

Moore believes that working with the private sector is a “sea change” for an organization enmeshed in secrecy. Until 1992, Britain's government refused even to confirm the existence of MI6. The organization has gradually become more open in recent years, even allowing the publication of an authorized history — though it only goes up to 1949. MI6 began publicly naming its chief, who uses the code name C, in the 1990s.

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