MI5 has warned Cambridge and other universities to stop working with China on key technologies or face prosecution for helping its spies.
In an unprecedented public 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 such as artificial intelligence (AI).
The stark warning reveals Beijing‘s spies have been secretly funding studies at British universities in key areas to hone their ‘technical capability for espionage’.
Other projects included cyber-security, covert communications systems and steganography, which is the practice of hiding a secret message in a file or physical
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