The remarks follow a Five Eyes spy alliance warning that cyberwarfare could become a critical threat within months
AI-driven cyberoffensive tools can be compared to “digital nuclear weapons,” CIA Director John Ratcliffe has said, warning that they could fuel rivalries among global powers.
Ratcliffe made the comparison on Tuesday in a speech at the Amazon Web Services summit in Washington, where he discussed the spy agency’s efforts to speed up the acquisition of private-sector products for its own use.
“AI tools will only continue to raise the stakes in our competition with all of America’s adversaries,” Ratcliffe said. It would be “not misplaced to refer to their capabilities as akin to digital nuclear weapons,” he added, citing discussions within the administration of US President Donald Trump.
Ratcliffe claimed that rival nations “work to steal and to manipulate America’s advancements for their own ends and gains.”
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