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Ciaran Martin

Primo amministratore delegato del National Cyber Security Centre britannico, oggi professor of practice alla Blavatnik School of Government di Oxford, definisce lo scenario di uno sciame di agenti di IA che si impadronisce dell’intera rete nel giro di un anno «un esperimento mentale travestito da avvertimento basato su prove».

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  1. dic 2013 – oggiHead 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.Fonte →
  2. feb 2016 – ago 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.Fonte →
  3. set 2020 – oggiProfessor of Practice in the Management of Public Organisations, Blavatnik School of Government, University of OxfordFonte →

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  1. 13 set 2026 · Post · 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 all’epoca

    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.

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