NHS England is withdrawing publicly available software from GitHub due to concerns about AI-enabled hacking, citing the Mythos model as a catalyst, despite the UK government's AI Security Institute finding such threats minimal. Security experts and officials argue the move contradicts the NHS service standard requiring open-source publication of publicly funded code and is ineffective since the software already exists in backups and downloads.
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NHS England is withdrawing publicly available software from GitHub due to concerns about AI-enabled hacking, citing the Mythos model as a catalyst, despite the UK government's AI Security Institute finding such threats minimal. Security experts and officials argue the move contradicts the NHS service standard requiring open-source publication of publicly funded code and is ineffective since the software already exists in backups and downloads.