Secure AI Weekly

  AI serves not only for good. Adversaries can use it and advance their attacks Researchers have created a new technique to stop adversarial attacks The Next Web, September 7, 2021 As artificial intelligence systems become components of many critical applications, the issue of their security is growing. At the ...

AI serves not only for good. Adversaries can use it and advance their attacks Facebook apologizes after its AI software labels Black men ‘primates’ in a video featured on the platform Facebook apologized for the error of its AI-based software Facebook representatives expressed their regrets for the company’s artificial intelligence ...

Even sophisticated technologies such as artificial intelligence can be fooled   Researchers Demonstrate AI Can Be Fooled Bankinfosecurity, August 25, 2021 Researchers at Purdue University have found that smart systems used in image recognition tools can be easily tricked with just a camera, a projector and a PC. The study ...

Machine learning has come a long way, but it needs to meet safety criteria Novel Feature Importance-Aware Transferable Adversarial Attacks Dramatically Improve Transferability Synced, August 10, 2021 Researchers have proposed the Feature Importance-Aware Attacks  able so significantly enhance the transferability of adversarial examples. Deep neural networks are increasingly used in ...

In order to test smart systems for strength, sometimes you need the help of a large number of people Twitter uses HackerOne bounties to find biases in its image-cropping AI model The Register, August 2, 2021 Twitter’s bug bounty competition is available through HackerOne, where you can help to improve ...

Knowledge about artificial intelligence and its security needs to be constantly improved NIST Requests Information to Help Develop an AI Risk Management Framework Nist, July 29, 2021 The U.S. The Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) solicits information from the public to be used in developing ...

Without proper attention from experts, AI can become a weapon in the hands of attackers Researchers Hid Malware Inside an AI’s ‘Neurons’ And It Worked Scarily Well Vice, July 22, 2021 It is expected that neural networks will become more widespread in the future, and then they can become a ...

The face recognition system opens up a number of possibilities for us, while being extremely vulnerable The real facial recognition threat: Worry about bad actors getting ahold of the data Daily News, July 15, 2021 It’s no secret that face recognition systems still raise a number of questions in society. ...