MI5 says over 100 UK academics worked on projects funded by China’s spies
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Academic AI and dual-use research are now formally in the national security blast radius—MI5 is telling UK universities to review work tied to a Chinese institute funding projects for the MSS. If you run research partnerships, you need a real counterparty and funding provenance review, not just an ethics form.
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