Pen Testers Need to Hack AI… Out of Existence

Robert Lemos wrote an excellent introduction to my RSA SF conference talk, over at DarkReading.

A steady stream of security researchers and technologists have already found ways to circumvent protections placed on AI systems, but society needs to have broader discussions about how to test and improve safety, say Ottenheimer…. “Especially from the context of a pentest, I’m supposed to go in and basically assess [an AI system] for safety, but what’s missing is that we’re not making a decision about whether it is safe, whether the application is acceptable,” he says. A server’s security, for example, does not speak to whether the system is safe “if you are running the server in a way that’s unacceptable … and we need to get to that level with AI.”

My presentation is available on the RSA SF conference site now, for those with a pass.

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