The situation has left experts scrambling to address the threat of rogue AI . But few reckoned with the idea that the AI system itself would launch the attacks. Today's AI cyber attacks are described by some experts as "noisy", easily detected by most computer firewalls. "We are not heading for an AI cyber security apocalypse," Ciaran Martin, the former head of GCHQ's cyber agency, said this week. Britain does not have any domestically owned AI companies, nor is it very good at building the data centres where they are trained.