AI Safety and You: Perspectives on Evolving Risks and Impacts
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Black Hat USA 2024 · Day 1 · Briefing
This Black Hat USA session, "AI Safety and You: Perspectives on Evolving Risks and Impacts," delves into the critical and often misunderstood domain of **AI safety** from the perspective of cybersecurity professionals. Nathan Hammel, the Black Hat AI/ML/Data Science track lead, initiates the discussion by challenging the common misconception that AI safety is solely concerned with speculative "existential risk" scenarios involving AI destroying humanity. Instead, the panel reframes AI safety as a pragmatic concern for "safe to use" AI, directly aligning it with core cybersecurity principles like **security**, **privacy**, **alignment**, and **reliability** (SPAR). The talk emphasizes that the skills inherent to the security community are uniquely positioned to address the burgeoning challenges of AI safety, which are rapidly creeping into the security domain.