The video explores the risks of Agentic AI, which acts rather than just chats, and the emergence of 'Shadow AI'—unofficial, unmonitored AI systems. It proposes a unified control plane for AI security and governance, using a continuous loop of discovery, assessment, governance, and auditing to ensure safe automation. The concepts are illustrated with practical use cases in healthcare and public services.
Sumeet Jeswani of Google discusses the critical shift from AI-powered to AI-orchestrated cyber attacks, where autonomous agents now lead complex security breaches. The summary explores new manipulation techniques like prompt and data injection, and outlines a multi-layered defense strategy rooted in the principles of least agency, defense-in-depth, and building security into AI systems from the ground up.
Co-founders Jenn Wortman Vaughan and Hanna Wallach reflect on 20 years of the Women in Machine Learning (WiML) workshop, discussing its origins, their parallel careers in responsible AI, and the future challenges of evaluating generative AI and fostering critical thought.
Jenn Wortman Vaughan and Hanna Wallach, co-founders of the Women in Machine Learning (WiML) workshop, reflect on their intersecting careers, the founding and evolution of WiML over 20 years, and their influential research in responsible AI, from interpretability and fairness to the current challenges in generative AI.
Researcher Stephanie Hare discusses the need for a guiding ethos in AI, similar to the Hippocratic Oath, to balance innovation with harm reduction. She explores the challenges of regulating technology, the degradation of the internet with AI-generated content, and the critical collision between AI's infrastructural demands and the climate crisis.
Dr. Ewelina Kurtys of FinalSpark explains their pioneering work in building biocomputers from living human neurons, which are up to one million times more energy-efficient than traditional silicon chips. The conversation covers the technology of reprogramming skin cells into neurons, the company's growth strategy, and the profound ethical and philosophical questions, such as potential 'Matrix' scenarios, that arise from merging biology with AI.