LONDON: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps could be active inside Britain, UK-based journalists from television channel Iran International have warned.
Adam Baillie, a senior studio producer at the organization, told Arab News: “While threats in themselves aren’t new, it is worrying for our staff to know they could be targeted on British soil.”
Baillie said that staff had recently received death threats from undercover agents of Iran’s guard corps in the UK capital, according to London’s Metropolitan Police.
Baillie added: “From the information we have been given, the threats against us are not from freelance supporters of the Iranian government, but directly from the IRGC who, after all, have been explicit in their threats against us.
“Brig. Gen. (Hossein) Salami has said that they are coming for us.
“There is always the chance that freelancers could be tempted to act alone, as it were, but we are well prepared for this.”
Baillie pointed out that despite “good security measures in place,” members of staff at Iran International are concerned.
He added: “This is an added stress to what is such a stressful situation for Iranians everywhere.”
Baillie also said that police had deployed armed response vehicles around the TV studios in Chiswick Park to deter potential attacks on journalists.
He said: “The threats against us have increased in line with the spread of unrest within Iran.
“We are now the main source of uncensored news within Iran; we mirror back to Iran what is happening in Iran. That does not fit in with the Iranian government’s usual media policies.”
Fears over Iranian attacks on UK-based TV journalists
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Fears over Iranian attacks on UK-based TV journalists
- Staff had recently received death threats from undercover agents of Iran’s guard corps in the UK capital
- Baillie pointed out that despite “good security measures in place,” members of staff at Iran International are concerned
OpenAI’s Altman says world ‘urgently’ needs AI regulation
- Sam Altman, head of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, told a global artificial intelligence conference on Thursday that the world “urgently” needs to regulate the fast-evolving technology
NEW DELHI: Sam Altman, head of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, told a global artificial intelligence conference on Thursday that the world “urgently” needs to regulate the fast-evolving technology.
An organization could be set up to coordinate these efforts, similar to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), he said.
Altman is one of a host of top tech CEOs in New Delhi for the AI Impact Summit, the fourth annual global meeting on how to handle advanced computing power.
“Democratization of AI is the best way to ensure humanity flourishes,” he said on stage, adding that “centralization of this technology in one company or country could lead to ruin.”
“This is not to suggest that we won’t need any regulation or safeguards,” Altman said.
“We obviously do, urgently, like we have for other powerful technologies.”
Many researchers and campaigners believe stronger action is needed to combat emerging issues, ranging from job disruption to sexualized deepfakes and AI-enabled online scams.
“We expect the world may need something like the IAEA for international coordination of AI,” with the ability to “rapidly respond to changing circumstances,” Altman said.
“The next few years will test global society as this technology continues to improve at a rapid pace. We can choose to either empower people or concentrate power,” he added.
“Technology always disrupts jobs; we always find new and better things to do.”
Generative AI chatbot ChatGPT has 100 million weekly users in India, more than a third of whom are students, he said.
Earlier on Thursday, OpenAI announced with Indian IT giant Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) a plan to build data center infrastructure in the South Asian country.
