Defense against the AI Arts

The rise of generative AI products for commercial use is probably the fastest and most controversial of any technological advance in history.  Governments are scrambling to understand and regulate its use. Billions are being invested in development.

Perhaps, as a sign of our collective tech fatigue, however, the consumer interest in the technology has failed as skepticism regarding its safety has increased.  Just last month the perceived leader in large language model platform, OpenAI, announced a potential bankruptcy in 2024 unless significant new investment is forthcoming.

Still, the genie is out of the bottle as the say goes and there is no putting it back.  What is left is figuring out what wishes we can make won’t result in outright disaster.

So we have brought this panel of experts to talk about how we can defend against the malicious use of the technology while we mine the benefits.

• We have Hyrum Anderson, co-author of my favorite book of 2023, Not With a Bug But a Sticker, which explains how vulnerable AI’s are to corruption and misuse. Both are accomplished data scientists with a historical understanding of the tech going back decades.
• Next we have Haseeb Khan, Generative AI Ambassador and Senior Artificial Intelligence Engineer at Google who believes that getting AI solutions right will overwhelmingly succeed, those that get it wrong will fail.
• For a practical application of defensive technology we have invited Alon Yamin, CEO of Copyleaks, a company that started using AI to identify plagiarism and has expanded to identifying AI-generated content.
• Finally, we have Milan Lazich, a senior marketing executive with deep experience in the technology world, who will represent the user world perspective about concerns and best practices in then use of generative AI. Gentlemen, thanks for joining.