NHS England rushes to hide software amid fears of AI hackers

NHS England is rushing to withdraw all the software it wrote from public view due to the risk of hacking by cutting-edge artificial intelligence. Security experts believe the move is unnecessary and counterproductive.

Software produced by the National Health Service has previously been made available as open source and listed on GitHub because it was created with public money. This allows other organizations to build on this and provide better services more cost-effectively without duplicating efforts.

But NHS England has issued new guidance to staff which has been communicated New scientistthis requires existing and future software to be removed from public view and kept behind closed doors. “All source code repositories must be private by default. Repositories may not be public unless there is an express and exceptional need and public access has been officially granted…