Bank of England chief warns new AI models threaten global financial stability

摘要: Economy

Bank of England chief warns new AI models threaten global financial stability

Published Mon, Aug 31 2026

6:18 AM EDT

Updated Mon, Aug 31 2

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Bank of England chief warns new AI models threaten global financial stability

Published Mon, Aug 31 2026

6:18 AM EDT

Updated Mon, Aug 31 2026

9:35 AM EDT

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Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey has warned that frontier AI could materially increase cyber risks to the global financial system.

Financial firms may need stronger defenses against faster, larger-scale cyberattacks and disruption.

The FSB chair urged governments to strengthen safeguards as AI capabilities rapidly advance.

Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England (BOE), during a Bloomberg Television interview at the Reykjavik Economic Conference in Reykjavik, Iceland, on Friday, May 29, 2026.

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The growing threat posed by advanced artificial intelligence models could trigger a disorderly correction in global financial markets, according to Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey.

In a two-page

published Monday to G20 finance ministers and central bank governors, Bailey said the emergence of so-called frontier AI models is showing "increasingly sophisticated autonomy and problem-solving abilities, as well as threat capabilities."

Writing in his capacity as chair of the Financial Stability Board, an international body that coordinates policy and makes recommendations to national authorities, Bailey identified the potential impact of frontier AI — which refers to the most advanced AI models — on cyber risk as "the most immediate concern" for the financial system.

"Frontier AI may have the ability materially to alter the speed, scale and economics of cyber risk, which could undermine market confidence system-wide, especially due to highly concentrated third-party service providers," Bailey said.

"Recent developments have also highlighted to me that many jurisdictions do not have the protocols in place to manage the development, release, and deployment of advanced

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