07-13, 18:00–18:50 (US/Eastern), Little Theatre
The media is full of dire predictions about how AI poses a danger to humanity: mostly from the very people who are building and benefiting from existing AI tools. When "AI" is embedded in everything from mobile phones to photo editing software to chatbots, what does AI actually mean? And what are the real dangers that it poses? In this talk, Tom will delve into the history of AI, before looking at what current AI solutions actually are (and aren't). Far from the grim meathook future of Skynet, the rush to build large scale AI solutions today by big tech brings more subtle but equally dangerous challenges - and opportunities for us as hackers to address them.
Tom Kranz has over 30 years’ experience in cybersecurity, starting with breaking into Prestel with a BBC Micro in the U.K. in the early 80s. He’s now a CISO, author, and consultant. Working with HPC and supercomputing systems in the 1990s and early 2000s, he moved on to using machine learning and AI in cybersecurity, and writing a book for NVIDIA about how AI can transform defensive cybersecurity.
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