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Ciaran Martin
Gründungschef des britischen National Cyber Security Centre, heute Professor of Practice an der Blavatnik School of Government in Oxford, der das Szenario eines KI-Agentenschwarms, der binnen eines Jahres das gesamte Internet übernimmt, „ein Gedankenexperiment, das sich als evidenzbasierte Warnung ausgibt“ nennt.
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- Dez. 2013 – heuteHead of cyber security, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)Recommended the establishment of a UK National Cyber Security Centre within the intelligence and security agency; the Government agreed and the Chancellor announced it in November 2015.Quelle →
- Feb. 2016 – Aug. 2020Founding Chief Executive, National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)The centre became operational in October 2016. He had planned to resign in June 2020 and delayed until August because of the COVID-19 pandemic; succeeded by Lindy Cameron.Quelle →
- Sept. 2020 – heuteProfessor of Practice in the Management of Public Organisations, Blavatnik School of Government, University of OxfordQuelle →
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13. Sept. 2026 · Beitrag · LinkedIn
a thought experiment masquerading as an evidence-based warning
Professor of Practice in the Management of Public Organisations, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford zu jener Zeit
Said of one specific scenario put during the September 2026 debate — an agent swarm of the kind that breached Hugging Face taking over the whole internet with a persistent botnet within six to twelve months — and not of the wider concern about the pace of AI development. The outlet reports him arguing that the scenario assumes the absence or failure of three decades of security controls: network segmentation, monitoring, endpoint protection, DDoS mitigation, incident response and coordinated botnet disruption. The words are a quoted fragment inside the reporter's sentence ("Martin's assessment was blunt: The scenario was 'a thought experiment masquerading as an evidence-based warning.'"), so they are rendered without a capital. The remark was made in a LinkedIn analysis which this register has not read directly; the source is the outlet that reproduces the phrase, and the date is the date printed on that page, not the date of the post.