{"slug": "ai-poses-new-national-security-threat-outgoing-hong-kong-deputy-police-chief", "title": "AI poses new national security threat, outgoing Hong Kong deputy police chief warns", "summary": "Retiring Hong Kong deputy police commissioner Andrew Kan Kai-yan warned that artificial intelligence poses a new national security threat to the city, saying the force is turning to the technology to help combat the issue. Kan, 57, who headed the National Security Department and began pre-retirement leave on Tuesday after 35 years on the force, spoke after mainland state security minister Chen Yixin warned last week of rising national security risks posed by AI and called for robust risk prevention frameworks and stronger global governance. Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu outlined plans in his annual policy address last week to adopt an AI risk-governance strategy focused on combating criminal use of the technology and formulating safety-management guidelines for AI agents.", "body_md": "Advertisement\n\n# AI poses new national security threat, outgoing Hong Kong deputy police chief warns\n\nAndrew Kan discusses using AI to fight AI, ongoing threat of soft resistance and what lies ahead after retirement\n\n4-MIN READ4-MIN\n\nRetiring deputy police commissioner Andrew Kan Kai-yan has said \n\n[artificial intelligence (AI)](https://www.scmp.com/topics/artificial-intelligence?module=inline&pgtype=article)poses a new threat to national security in Hong Kong, with the force turning to the emerging technology to help combat the issue.\nKan raised the alarm after state security minister Chen Yixin \n\n[warned last week](https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3367349/chinas-intelligence-chief-warns-risks-ai-new-arena-strategic-rivalry?module=inline&pgtype=article)of rising national security risks posed by AI. The senior mainland Chinese official also called for robust risk prevention frameworks and stronger global governance of the technology.\nChief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu outlined plans in his annual policy address last week to adopt an AI risk‑governance strategy, focusing on combating the use of such technologies in criminal activities and formulating safety‑management guidelines for AI agents.\n\nKan, 57, who headed the National Security Department, began his pre-retirement leave on Tuesday after 35 years on the force.\n\nSelect Voice\n\nSelect Speed\n\n1x\n\nAI-generated voice", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-poses-new-national-security-threat-outgoing-hong-kong-deputy-police-chief", "canonical_source": "https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3368258/ai-poses-new-national-security-threat-outgoing-hong-kong-deputy-police-chief-warns?utm_source=rss_feed", "published_at": "2026-09-21 23:00:08+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-21 23:22:39.189549+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-safety", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Andrew Kan Kai-yan", "Hong Kong Police Force", "Chen Yixin", "John Lee Ka-chiu", "National Security Department"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-poses-new-national-security-threat-outgoing-hong-kong-deputy-police-chief", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-poses-new-national-security-threat-outgoing-hong-kong-deputy-police-chief.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-poses-new-national-security-threat-outgoing-hong-kong-deputy-police-chief.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-poses-new-national-security-threat-outgoing-hong-kong-deputy-police-chief.jsonld"}}