And so we're wondering, you know, just to get our listeners a bit more oriented, to what extent are these issues drawing attention within the UK government? What are the broad topical concerns around the rising threat of AI-driven cyberattacks as a live threat right now, and how do you see this progressing in the coming year?

Great.

Well, thank you very much, David, for that very generous and probably totally unnecessary introduction.

Thank you, Nicola, as well for having me.

Maybe in that-- in the spirit of that orientation, I'll just take a further step back and tell you a little bit about what GCHQ does.

So very briefly, GCHQ is the UK's intelligence, cyber, and security agency, and our mission is to keep the UK safe online and in real world.

That includes managing the threat of hostile statesCountering terrorists and criminals, providing support to defense, and as part of that, making the UK the safest place to live and do business online.

This first piece about, well, international norms, will that really be connected up to this, or will that be sort of a separate really government-to-government dialogue that has more to do with military uses and not be something that companies should really focus on?