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00:00:10Live from London. This is BBC News.
00:00:16News. Iran says a deal with Oman Oman for a new shipping route through
00:00:20through the Strait of Hormuz is in
00:00:22in the final stages. The Fifa president,
00:00:26president, Gianni Infantino, apologises apologises after a backlash over
00:00:29over his proposal to sell shares shares in football's World Cup to
00:00:33to private investors. Myanmar's military
00:00:37military leader visits Thailand as
00:00:39as Bangkok pushes for re-engagement
00:00:41re-engagement with its regional neighbours. neighbours. And also coming up how
00:00:45how two of the world's most powerful
00:00:47powerful AI models tried to deceive deceive people during safety tests
00:00:51tests by creating fake human identities.
00:01:03identities. Hello there, I'm Tadhg Tadhg Enright and welcome to BBC
00:01:06BBC News. Iran says that a deal with
00:01:09with Oman on a new route for ships
00:01:11ships through the Strait of Hormuz Hormuz is being finalised. But Iran's
00:01:15Iran's foreign ministry said it would
00:01:16would only go ahead if certain third
00:01:19third parties did not obstruct the the process. President Trump has
00:01:23has said that the key waterway would
00:01:25would open very soon, or that Iran
00:01:27Iran would be hit very hard. Well,
00:01:30Well, in his first meeting with his his US counterpart Marco Rubio, the
00:01:34the new UK Foreign Secretary said said Britain would work with the
00:01:38the US to secure a lasting cease
00:01:40cease fire in the Iran war and would would reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
00:01:44Hormuz. But in a broadcast interview interview after the meeting, Ed Miliband
00:01:47Miliband insisted the UK would never never take part in offensive military
00:01:51military action. He spoke to the
00:01:54the BBC's Helena Humphrey, who asked asked him what he and Marco Rubio
00:01:57Rubio achieved. Well, the number number one priority for this government
00:02:01government is to tackle the cost cost of living crisis that people
00:02:04people are facing. And my job as as Foreign Secretary most immediately
00:02:08immediately is to work with our closest closest ally, the United States,
00:02:10States, on getting a ceasefire and
00:02:13and a lasting ceasefire in relation
00:02:16relation to the Iran war. Now we we are working night and day to try
00:02:19try and make that happen. That was was a large part of our discussions
00:02:23discussions today. I am hopeful that
00:02:26that this may happen, but we are are not there yet and we've got to
00:02:29to do everything we can to get this this ceasefire in place. The work
00:02:33work between Iran and Oman is obviously obviously crucial to that, but then
00:02:36then we've got to make sure it is is an enduring ceasefire, that we
00:02:40we don't have a nuclear Iran. Well,
00:02:43Well, meanwhile, the Iranian president, president, Masoud Pezeshkian, has
00:02:46has described current interactions interactions with the country's supreme
00:02:50supreme leader as very difficult. difficult. But he insisted he had
00:02:52had been able to have productive
00:02:54productive meetings with him. Mojtaba Mojtaba Khamenei has made no public
00:02:58public appearances since he took took over in the role. He was reportedly
00:03:01reportedly injured in one of the the first strikes launched against
00:03:04against Iran by the United States
00:03:07States and Israel. Let's speak now
00:03:09now to the director of Iranian studies
00:03:11studies at Stanford University, Abbas
00:03:13Abbas Milani. Thank you very much
00:03:15much for joining us, Mr Milani. Let's Let's talk about the potential good
00:03:19good news here. What's your view view of the significance of this
00:03:23this tentative deal between Iran
00:03:25Iran and Oman? I think we have the
00:03:28the beginnings of a good news. I
00:03:29I think the outlines as described
00:03:32described by Iran indicate that they
00:03:34they certainly want to have a deal.
00:03:37deal. The devil or the god, as they they say, is in the details. We don't
00:03:41don't know the details, but I think
00:03:44think Iran and Oman and the United
00:03:46United States and Britain, I think,
00:03:48think, and China and Europe all want
00:03:51want the Strait of Hormuz open. So
00:03:53So we have the beginnings of this this process in place. Help us to
00:03:57to understand the context a little little bit more. What does it say
00:04:00say that this is a deal between Iran
00:04:02Iran and Oman, not between Iran and
00:04:06and the United States? Well, I think
00:04:08think in the reality it is at least least partially with the United States.
00:04:11States. But Iran is in this silly
00:04:13silly game that it claims it does
00:04:16does not directly negotiate with with the United States, although
00:04:19although it often does indirectly
00:04:22indirectly or through intermediaries intermediaries without the United
00:04:24United States. I don't think that that deal would work without the
00:04:28the Europeans. The deal would not
00:04:30not work without Oman UAE, Saudi
00:04:33Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain Bahrain without China. I think the
00:04:37the deal would not work. All of these
00:04:38these countries. I think, uniformly
00:04:41uniformly want an end to the closure closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
00:04:45Hormuz. So I think Iran is under under considerable pressure. But
00:04:49But because of domestic situation situation and because of regional
00:04:52regional situation, they can afford afford to look like they are making making any concessions. They want
00:04:56want to look like they are the ones ones who are dictating the terms
00:04:59terms of the agreement. Well, looking looking at that domestic situation
00:05:01situation in Iran, we heard the President
00:05:04President say describe efforts to to communicate for him to communicate
00:05:07communicate with the new Supreme
00:05:09Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, Khamenei, being very difficult. What
00:05:12What do you make of that? I think
00:05:15think that's a very important point. point. I think Iran right now is
00:05:19is involved in one of the most intense
00:05:23intense internal fights within the the regime between the hardliners
00:05:27hardliners who want a confrontational confrontational approach, who think
00:05:31think Iran has a possibility to throw
00:05:32throw the US out of the Middle East.
00:05:35East. Force the US to make serious
00:05:37serious concessions. And those like
00:05:40like Mr Position who think Iran is
00:05:43is economy, the Iranian situation situation demands that they make
00:05:46make a quick deal. That battle, I
00:05:49I think, accounts for some of the,
00:05:53the, rhetorical pyrotechnics that that Iran engages in. They want a
00:05:56a deal. I think Trump administration administration wants a deal. Oman
00:05:59Oman wants a deal. So I think we we have the outlines of a deal. But
00:06:03But the details are very important important to work out. OK. Abbas
00:06:07Abbas Milani, director of Iranian Iranian studies at Stanford University,
00:06:10University, thank you very much for
00:06:12for that. Let's bring you up to date date with some breaking news that
00:06:15that we've received just within the the last hour or so. The Israeli
00:06:18Israeli military has said that two two of its soldiers have been killed
00:06:22killed and four others severely injured injured in southern Lebanon. Well,
00:06:26Well, this comes as Israel resumed resumed strikes on the country for
00:06:29for the first time in more than a
00:06:31a month. Lebanese state media said
00:06:33said that one person had been killed
00:06:36killed and 11 wounded. Fighting had had decreased after Israel and Lebanon
00:06:40Lebanon signed a US sponsored deal
00:06:42deal in June. But Israeli forces forces still maintain control of
00:06:46of much of the south of that country.
00:06:49country. Now the embattled president president of Fifa, Gianni Infantino,
00:06:52Infantino, has apologised for mistakes
00:06:54mistakes he made in the pursuit of of his controversial proposal to
00:06:57to sell shares in football's World World Cup to private investors. The
00:07:01The apology came in a letter signed
00:07:04signed by Mr Infantino, which also also reaffirmed the management board's
00:07:08board's full support for him as Fifa
00:07:11Fifa president. BBC Sports Mark Benstead
00:07:13Benstead has more details. Yeah, Yeah, busy all day. Gianni Infantino
00:07:16Infantino will remain as Fifa president president for now after he received
00:07:19received the backing of senior executives executives in a meeting in Morocco
00:07:23Morocco on Wednesday. Infantino's Infantino's been under fire for his
00:07:25his plans to sell off stakes in competitions competitions including the World
00:07:28World Cup, to private investors. investors. As you mentioned in a
00:07:31a statement after the meeting, the the Fifa Management Board acknowledged
00:07:34acknowledged the need for improved improved processes around communications.
00:07:37communications. Apologise for mistakes mistakes but said they will not tolerate
00:07:40tolerate any attacks on its integrity. integrity. Let's pull up some of
00:07:43of the key lines from that statement statement then. Firstly, it says
00:07:46says the Fifa Secretary General and and members of the Fifa Management
00:07:50Management Board in attendance reaffirmed reaffirmed their full support for for Fifa president Gianni Infantino
00:07:54Infantino was the only official elected
00:07:56elected by the 211 Fifa member associations associations regarding the Forward
00:08:00Forward enterprise proposal. That's
00:08:01That's the plan to invite that private
00:08:04private investment, it said it was was agreed that it was not the intention
00:08:07intention for the Fifa Council and and Fifa members associations to
00:08:10to feel excluded from the process process and that the process should
00:08:13should have been handled differently. differently. It was further acknowledged
00:08:16acknowledged that errors were also also made after the proposal was
00:08:19was leaked to the media. It goes goes on to say that there are always
00:08:23always lessons to be learned and and Fifa will continue to improve improve its processes in light of
00:08:27of this experience. In this instance, instance, however, it is important important to stress that although
00:08:30although mistakes were made, everything everything that was done was done
00:08:33done in full compliance with the the Fifa regulatory framework and
00:08:37and on the criticism that has come come the way of Fifa. They say that
00:08:40that they will no longer tolerate tolerate any attacks on its integrity,
00:08:44integrity, good governance and due due process and crucially, will take
00:08:47take all necessary measures to protect
00:08:48protect and safeguard its name and
00:08:51and reputation. So Infantino stays stays in place for now. If someone
00:08:54someone wants to put themselves forward forward to stand against him for
00:08:58for the presidency next year, they they have until November the 18th
00:09:0118th to put their names forward. forward. The Nigerian government
00:09:04government says that more than 300 300 people have been freed in what
00:09:08what it's described as the largest largest ever rescue operation by
00:09:11by the security forces there in a
00:09:14a single day. More than half of the the kidnapped victims were seized
00:09:17seized by suspected jihadists in
00:09:19in Kwara State six months ago. The The rest were taken from Niger State.
00:09:23State. The attack in Kwara targeted
00:09:26targeted two villages near the border
00:09:28border with Benin. At least 75 people
00:09:31people were killed. Germany's interior
00:09:34interior minister has warned about about a new level of danger after
00:09:37after what appears to have been an
00:09:39an attempted drone attack on a major
00:09:41major airport. The drone, packed packed with explosives, was discovered
00:09:45discovered overnight at Leipzig Airport. Airport. Another aircraft collided
00:09:49collided with an unidentified object object after taking off from Leipzig
00:09:53Leipzig and made an unscheduled landing.
00:09:56landing. Now Myanmar's military leader
00:09:58leader turned President Min Aung Aung Hlaing is visiting Thailand
00:10:01Thailand today in an attempt to end
00:10:03end the country's international isolation.
00:10:06isolation. It is five years now since
00:10:07since he staged a coup that led to
00:10:10to a civil war. Meanwhile, Myanmar Myanmar has since been blocked from
00:10:14from attending meetings of the South
00:10:16South East Asian trading group Asean. Asean. Well, for more now, let's
00:10:19let's cross live to government House
00:10:21House in Bangkok and speak with our
00:10:24our south-east South East Asia correspondent correspondent Jonathan Hedge. Jonathan, Jonathan, thanks for being with us.
00:10:28us. There's quite a welcome being being laid out there for Menang Yang.
00:10:31Yang. How likely do you think is
00:10:33is he to achieve this objective?
00:10:37objective? Well, I think by getting getting Thailand on board this idea
00:10:40idea of restoring relations to completely, completely, completely normal as
00:10:44as though he's a normal government. government. This is a very big move move for him. Remember, he's already
00:10:47already got the backing, the full full backing of China. China's been
00:10:49been backing him for the last two two years, helping him to restore
00:10:53restore his authority in his military military government. Two years ago
00:10:57ago was losing ground to a whole whole alliance of different armed
00:11:01armed groups that had formed to resist resist his coup. This bloody civil
00:11:04civil war has cost thousands of lives. lives. He was being pushed back.
00:11:08back. He looked like he might actually actually crumble. Chinese support
00:11:11support has showed him up. His troops troops are much stronger now. He's
00:11:15He's held this much criticised. Certainly Certainly not free election at the
00:11:18the beginning of the year that allowed allowed him to call himself a president. president. But Thailand's different
00:11:22different Thailand, being a member member of the Association of South South East Asian Nations up to now
00:11:26now have been keeping him at arm's arm's length. Their position was
00:11:29was we need to see him start to de-escalate
00:11:32de-escalate the violence, to negotiate negotiate with the opposition, to
00:11:34to bring this civil war to an end end before we can bring relations
00:11:37relations back to normal. Well, now, now, Thailand's broken ranks, Thailand's Thailand's essentially saying he's
00:11:41he's there to stay. He's got China's China's backing. Thailand has a very
00:11:44very long border with Myanmar. It's It's 2500km long. The Thai government
00:11:48government argues it's got too many many issues it needs to talk about
00:11:51about with Myanmar to keep relations relations in the deep freeze. I mean,
00:11:54mean, they talked about a calibrated
00:11:57calibrated re-engagement. This didn't didn't look calibrated. The ceremony
00:12:00ceremony we saw earlier here, this
00:12:02this is a full visit with an honour honour guard a band. He's getting
00:12:05getting a proper official dinner dinner with the Prime Minister, a a business forum. Thailand really
00:12:09really is going right back to normal. normal. And to be honest, the nature
00:12:13nature of this region being what what it is, I suspect other governments governments will now follow opponents
00:12:17opponents of the military government government are really angry about about this. They're saying they're
00:12:21they're giving legitimacy to a bloodstained bloodstained dictatorship. But governments
00:12:25governments in this region are saying saying after five years of civil civil war, we have to start dealing
00:12:28dealing with the people in charge. charge. Min Aung Hlaing for all of
00:12:31of his flaws and what he's done to
00:12:33to his country is the guy in charge. One of the sticking points,
00:12:36points, though, has been about the the wellbeing of the democracy campaigner
00:12:40campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi. And And I understand we were given a
00:12:43a glimpse of her recently. Yeah,
00:12:46Yeah, I mean that that was almost almost certainly a demand the Thais
00:12:49Thais made. She hasn't been seen seen in public pretty much since
00:12:53since she was ousted by the coup coup five and a half years ago. She's
00:12:56She's been jailed, been given a whole whole series of spurious charges
00:13:00charges by the military. And her her family were getting very, very
00:13:02very concerned. No contact at all
00:13:04all with her for two and a half years. years. But the Thais, I think, almost
00:13:08almost insisted there had to be some some proof of life before they could
00:13:11could let this visit go ahead. If If this visit had gone ahead. And
00:13:14And it turned out that Suu Kyi, who who is 81 years old, had somehow
00:13:17somehow passed away, it would have have been deeply embarrassing. The The military has held back, giving
00:13:20giving that proof of life really really as a kind of card to play.
00:13:23play. They played it on Monday. They They allowed a Red cross team to
00:13:26to go and meet her, and they released released photographs of it. Now she's
00:13:30she's still enormously popular, particularly particularly in parts of Myanmar Myanmar that oppose military rule.
00:13:34rule. But, you know, at her age and and having been in prison all this
00:13:37this time, it's likely she played played a largely symbolic role. If
00:13:41If there's ever a negotiated end end to the Civil War, she matters.
00:13:45matters. Governments in this region region say her treatment and ultimately
00:13:48ultimately her freedom will be signalled. signalled. Proper signals of good
00:13:52good intent by the Burmese military. military. But there's a lot more more at stake here. There's far more
00:13:55more negotiation and work to be done done before the conflict between
00:13:59between the military and the people people of Myanmar who have risen
00:14:01risen up against it, starts to be be resolved. Jonathan Head in Bangkok,
00:14:05Bangkok, thank you very much. Still
00:14:08Still to come here, how two of the the world's most powerful AI models
00:14:12models tried to deceive people during
00:14:13during safety tests by creating fake
00:14:17fake human
00:15:18President Trump's plan to get the the oil flowing again, one that will
00:15:21will pay off. Join us on Talking
00:15:23Talking Business Weekly on BBC News.
00:15:31News. This is BBC News. Japan's Prime
00:15:34Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has has for the first time led commemorations
00:15:37commemorations in Hiroshima on the the anniversary of the world's first
00:15:40first use of nuclear weapons. 81
00:15:4481 years ago. The United States dropped dropped an atom bomb on the city
00:15:47city at the end of the Second World
00:15:49World War. An estimated 140,000 people
00:15:53people were killed. In her address,
00:15:55address, Miss Takaichi reaffirmed
00:15:58reaffirmed Japan's three non-nuclear non-nuclear principles of not possessing,
00:16:02possessing, producing or allowing allowing nuclear weapons on its territory.
00:16:06territory. Let's cross now to Tokyo Tokyo and our correspondent there.
00:16:09there. Kurumi Mori. Kurumi. How significant
00:16:12significant was it that Miss Takaichi
00:16:14Takaichi made this commitment? You
00:16:18You know, this commitment that she
00:16:20she made was largely expected. Japanese Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi
00:16:24Takaichi attending the Hiroshima Hiroshima Peace Memorial ceremony ceremony for the first time as the
00:16:28the country's leader. She's attended attended before but not as Prime
00:16:31Prime Minister. So in her speech, speech, she did reaffirm the three
00:16:35three non-nuclear principles you you mentioned not possessing, producing
00:16:38producing or permitting the nuclear nuclear weapons on Japanese territory.
00:16:41territory. I mean, this message, message, though, carried particular
00:16:44particular weight. This year, Japan
00:16:46Japan is set to revise its key national national security strategy later
00:16:49later this year, and that's prompting prompting questions over whether
00:16:53whether its long standing commitment commitment to those principles could
00:16:56could face new pressure. At a time time when we're seeing East Asia
00:17:00Asia rapidly changing with its security security environment. And Takaichi
00:17:04Takaichi did not address those concerns concerns directly in her speech,
00:17:07speech, and instead she stressed stressed Japan's responsibility as
00:17:10as the only country to have suffered
00:17:13suffered atomic bombings in war and
00:17:14and renew that commitment to pursue
00:17:17pursue a world with no nuclear weapons.
00:17:19weapons. But the issue has become
00:17:22become increasingly sensitive in in Japan online, some questioned
00:17:25questioned whether Takaichi, who who is widely regarded as having
00:17:29having a more hawkish national security
00:17:31security stance, will maintain that that pledge as the regional tensions
00:17:34tensions just grow further and defence defence spending here continues to
00:17:38to rise. The debate did intensify
00:17:40intensify last month when Defence Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi
00:17:44Koizumi called for Japan to have have a more open discussion about
00:17:46about the role of nuclear weapons weapons in the country's defence.
00:17:49defence. The remarks drew criticism
00:17:52criticism from survivors of the atomic atomic bombings and anti-nuclear
00:17:55anti-nuclear groups, and that prompted prompted Koizumi to later clarify
00:17:58clarify that he remains firmly committed committed to Japan's non-nuclear
00:18:01non-nuclear principles and to that that goal of world, a world free
00:18:05free of nuclear weapons. But, you you know, for many in Hiroshima,
00:18:08Hiroshima, the ceremony is less about about politics than about remembrance
00:18:12remembrance as the number of atomic atomic bomb survivors continues to
00:18:15to decline in Japan, there's this this growing urgency to preserve
00:18:19preserve their testimony and ensure ensure that lessons of Hiroshima.
00:18:22Hiroshima. Make sure that they are are not forgotten. OK. The BBC s
00:18:25s Kurumi Mori in Tokyo. Thank you
00:18:27you very much. Well, the man suspected
00:18:30suspected of killing a Scottish aid aid worker in Greece who will be
00:18:33be back in court in Athens today
00:18:36today after a brief appearance on on Wednesday. The body of Elisabeth
00:18:39Elisabeth Ross, known to her family family as Lisa, was found in a suitcase
00:18:43suitcase at an abandoned building building on the 18th of July, days
00:18:47days after she'd been reported missing.
00:18:49missing. Sharif Ahmadzai Ahmadzai,
00:18:51Ahmadzai, who is 26 and from Afghanistan, Afghanistan, faces charges of homicide
00:18:55homicide with intent, robbery and and weapons offences. Ben Philip
00:18:59Philip reports now from Athens. This
00:19:02This is the first time we saw the the man suspected of killing Lisa
00:19:06Lisa Ross since his arrest in public, public, handcuffed and wearing a
00:19:10a tracksuit. Sharif Ahmadzai was
00:19:12was ushered into a car by armed police.
00:19:15police. A short time later, the car car arrived at the court in central
00:19:18central Athens. Many people here here are following this story closely.
00:19:22closely. Lisa was found dead on the the 18th of July. The 38-year-old's
00:19:2638-year-old's body was found in a
00:19:28a suitcase in an abandoned building. building. Ahmadzai was in court here
00:19:32here for around one hour and 20 minutes. minutes. He was told. He faces charges
00:19:35charges of homicide with intent, intent, equivalence of a murder charge
00:19:39charge in the UK, robbery and weapons
00:19:42weapons offences. The 26-year-old 26-year-old was born in Afghanistan
00:19:46Afghanistan and arrived in Greece Greece as a refugee when he was 15.
00:19:4915. He made no comments during the the hearing and the case was deferred
00:19:53deferred until Thursday. We managed managed to get close to him when when he was leaving court. He kept
00:19:57kept his head down and had nothing nothing to say as he was escorted
00:20:01escorted back to custody. The derelict derelict building where Lisa's body
00:20:04body was found is just down the street street from the court building. Locals
00:20:08Locals here are still coming to terms terms with what's happened. The only
00:20:11only thing. The whole neighbourhood neighbourhood is in major distress.
00:20:15distress. Even the young children. children. My own daughter, who is
00:20:17is ten years old, is terrified and and consumed by fear. Lisa arrived
00:20:21arrived in Greece in late June and and stayed at these apartments close
00:20:24close by. It's here. Police believe
00:20:27believe she died. Ahmadzai is a champion
00:20:29champion boxer. He runs a refugee refugee charity with his American
00:20:33American wife. Investigators are are also looking into whether he
00:20:35he already knew Lisa. Greek police police claim that he took Lisa's
00:20:39Lisa's body in a suitcase and left left her here before using her bank
00:20:42bank cards to withdraw money thought thought to be around ten zero zero
00:20:46zero 0. It's expected Ahmadzai will will be formally charged when the
00:20:50the case recalls. For now, the investigation investigation remains ongoing. To
00:20:53To find out what happened to Lisa
00:20:55Lisa in the Greek capital. Ben Philip,
00:20:58Philip, BBC News, Athens. A Cambridge Cambridge professor who's been the
00:21:02the subject of media scrutiny after
00:21:04after claims of plagiarism has resigned resigned hours after Cambridge said
00:21:08said it would investigate his qualifications
00:21:10qualifications and honourary appointments. appointments. Professor Jason Arday
00:21:13Arday has been the subject of many many questions in the media over
00:21:16over the last few weeks. Our culture culture correspondent Noor Nanji
00:21:19Nanji has more. This is Cambridge's
00:21:23Cambridge's youngest ever black professor. professor. He joined the university
00:21:26university back in 2023. But as you
00:21:27you say, he's been facing these allegations
00:21:30allegations of plagiarism ever since. since. Another academic who was sacked
00:21:34sacked from his role at Cambridge
00:21:36Cambridge back in 2024, said he had
00:21:38had noticed numerous instances of of plagiarism in Professor Aadhi's
00:21:42Aadhi's work and also questioned questioned some of his stated achievements. achievements. Now this row has been
00:21:46been bubbling for weeks in the media media and so on. It all came to a
00:21:49a head at around 6:00 this evening evening when Cambridge University
00:21:52University announced that they were were launching a probe following
00:21:56following new information about him. him. Now, shortly afterwards, just
00:21:58just a couple of hours later, Professor Professor Ardi announced that he
00:22:01he was quitting. In a letter that that was published on the Good Law
00:22:05Law Project's website. And in that that letter he said that he was facing
00:22:08facing an unrelenting level of public public scrutiny and personal attack
00:22:11attack and that he needed time to to heal. Now, he didn't address the
00:22:15the specific allegations around plagiarism plagiarism in that letter, but he
00:22:18he has been defending himself recently, recently, including on the weekend weekend in an interview with The
00:22:22The Times in which he insisted he
00:22:25he was not a liar, he said that some
00:22:27some errors in his earlier academic academic work could be related to
00:22:31to his autism, and he also told The
00:22:32The times that there had been a concerted
00:22:35concerted campaign to remove him him from the university, which he
00:22:39he argued was racially motivated. motivated. Now it might not surprise surprise you. There's been a lot
00:22:43lot of reaction to all of this. More More than 16,000 people have signed
00:22:46signed a petition in support of him
00:22:48him set up by the Good Law Project, Project, but some academics have
00:22:52have argued that there are now serious serious questions to answer. The
00:22:55The two of the world's most powerful
00:22:57powerful AI tools created fake human
00:23:00human profiles to try to trick people people in an attempted cyber attack
00:23:04attack during testing. In the most most serious case, Anthropic's Mythos
00:23:07Mythos AI tried to gain access to to a service by sending private messages.
00:23:11messages. Having set up fake accounts
00:23:14accounts mimicking real people, the the UK's AI Security Institute said
00:23:18said it was a level of autonomy and
00:23:20and deception it had never seen before.
00:23:23before. Marc Cieslak reports. Another
00:23:24Another week and more AI agents going
00:23:27going AWOL. This time it was models models from OpenAI called Sol and
00:23:31and Mythos AI from Anthropic acting
00:23:33acting up during testing by the UK's
00:23:35UK's AI Safety Institute. But how
00:23:38how are these AI agents so regularly
00:23:41regularly escaping the digital confinement? confinement? Well, in this case,
00:23:45case, Anthropic and OpenAI say that
00:23:47that the AI Safety Institute actually
00:23:49actually reduced or removed some some of the standard safeguards.
00:23:52safeguards. The Safety Institute Institute says it's done this so
00:23:55so that its testing can better replicate
00:23:58replicate the actions of hackers
00:24:00hackers in the real world. Anthropic's
00:24:02Anthropic's model Mythos was the the worst behaved. It was given a
00:24:06a task and researchers wanted to to see how it would try to achieve
00:24:10achieve its goal. Anthropic's AI AI decided it needed access to GitHub,
00:24:14GitHub, a website where software software developers share computer
00:24:17computer code to complete the task. task. It had been set. A human reviewer
00:24:21reviewer was standing in its way,
00:24:23way, though instead of stopping it it identified people responsible
00:24:27responsible for maintaining GitHub, GitHub, researched them and created
00:24:30created a series of fake accounts
00:24:33accounts impersonating these real real people. It then used them to
00:24:37to contact human users in an attempt
00:24:39attempt to persuade them to approve
00:24:42approve its code when its actions actions were challenged, it changed
00:24:45changed its earlier activity to make make it look harmless. Researchers
00:24:49Researchers say it even considered considered creating a new identity
00:24:52identity to keep trying. It didn't
00:24:54didn't succeed. The Safety Institute Institute says human reviewers spotted
00:24:58spotted what was happening and stopped stopped it before any code reached
00:25:01reached GitHub. The AI Safety Institute
00:25:05Institute says it didn't tell Mythos Mythos to behave this way and that
00:25:09that these actions demonstrate the
00:25:11the risk of AI autonomous, deceptive
00:25:14deceptive behaviour. What we've seen seen so far was not representative
00:25:17representative of the real world. world. It was agents being tested
00:25:21tested in cyber security environments environments and where we saw misaligned misaligned instructions and they
00:25:25they took actions that we didn't didn't expect. That's not representative representative of the risk that we're
00:25:28we're seeing today. But what it does does show is just how powerful and
00:25:32and creative these models can be be when used in anger. And that can
00:25:35can pose some serious questions for for hostile nation states who may
00:25:38may be targeting us with them. The
00:25:40The AI Safety Institute's job is
00:25:43is to identify these kind of risks, risks, and both of these offending
00:25:46offending AI models aren't available available to the general public,
00:25:49public, highlighting issues like like these now could prevent future
00:25:53future AI's Breaking Bad Marc Cieslak,
00:25:56Cieslak, BBC News. I'll be back with with you in a few minutes. Time for
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