Speaker:
Chris Demchak
US Naval War College

Abstract: As cyber's offspring, AI and its advanced technology brethren inherit the insecurity of the cyberspace substrate underlying digitized societies. Numerous articles have heralded the possibilities for hacking of ML models, data sets, and every aspect of the AI development chain in a breathless urgent tone suggesting these threats are surprising. In reality, whatever is left insecure in the cyber infrastructure will offer malicious avenues into the AI/ML development cycle and any subsequent tools, models, or databases resting on that firmament. This talk will review the challenges of secure AI/ML development given its cyber genealogy and suggest some potential systemic solutions.

About: With engineering, economics, and comparative complex organization theory/political science degrees, Dr. Chris C. Demchak is the RDML Grace M. Hopper Professor of Cyber Security and a member of the Cyber and Innovation Policy Institute, U.S. Naval War College. In her research on cyberspace as a globally shared insecure complex ‘substrate', Demchak takes a systemic approach to emergent structures, comparative institutional evolution, adversaries' use of systemic cybered tools, virtual worlds/gaming for operationalized organizational learning, and designing systemic resilience against imposed surprise.

The weekly security seminar has been held every semester since spring of 1992. We invite personnel at Purdue and visitors from outside to present on topics of particular interest to them in the areas of computer and network security, computer crime investigation, information warfare, information ethics, public policy for computing and security, the computing "underground," and other related topics. More info