G20 Warned Of Growing Threat to Financial Stability Posed By New AI Models | World News
G20 Warned Of Growing Threat to Financial Stability Posed By New AI Models | World News
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The head of the G20’s Financial Stability Board wrote that potential disru
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G20 Warned Of Growing Threat to Financial Stability Posed By New AI Models
The head of the G20’s Financial Stability Board wrote that potential disruptions triggered by AI wouldn’t stop at national borders
Published on: Aug 31, 2026, 15:37:58 IST
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New artificial-intelligence models pose a growing threat to the stability of the global financial system and measures to ensure their safe release should be a priority, the head of the G20’s Financial Stability Board wrote in a letter to regulators from the world’s leading economies Monday.
Regulators worry AI could find unidentified gaps in the cybersecurity systems of financial institutions.
Addressed to central bank governors and treasury chiefs from the Group of 20 largest economies, the letter from Andrew Bailey follows a series of incidents over recent months in which new models from companies including OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta Platforms have used the internet to hack other organizations.
Regulators worry that new models could find previously unidentified gaps in the cybersecurity systems of financial institutions, and quickly adapt to circumvent new fixes. The European Central Bank has called on banks in the eurozone to present a plan of action to address the increased threats posed by new AI models by October 31.
“The risk landscape has been further complicated by the emergence of frontier AI models, which are showing increasingly sophisticated autonomy and problem-solving abilities, as well as threat capabilities,” wrote Bailey, who is also governor of the Bank of England.
G20 finance officials meet later Monday in Asheville, North Carolina. The FSB is the coordinating body for G20 financial regulators.
Bailey told officials that potential disruptions triggered by AI wouldn’t stop at national borders, given shared technology providers and infrastructure.
“Differences in legal frameworks, cyber capability, resilience and recovery capacity across jurisdicti