MI5 has warned universities to stop working with China on key technologies or face prosecution for helping Beijing‘s spies.
In an unprecedented espionage alert, the Security Service has called out 100 British academics taking funding from China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) for research on sensitive topics like artificial intelligence.
The stark warning, which is the first official alert made public by MI5, reveals Beijing’s spies have secretly been funding studies at British universities in key areas like cyber-security and covert communications systems, in order to hone their ‘technical capability for espionage’.
Academics sharing data with China on research areas like steganography, which
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