Trusting a friend and trusting a service are fundamentally different. The former is personal and intimate, while the latter is impersonal and can scale to all of human society. The companies behind the current generative AI systems are poised to exploit that difference.
Their intimate conversational nature will cause us to think of them as friends when they are actually services, and trusted confidents when they will be actually be working against us.
Moreover, any serious AI application requires us to be sure that the models are secure. The second is a matter of technology. The first is a matter of policy. Both will require government regulation of the industry, which is how we create social trust in our society.
In this special in-person event, SRI Director David Lie will host Bruce Schneier, an internationally renowned security technologist, called a “security guru” by The Economist and author of several articles, essays and books—including his latest, A Hacker’s Mind—for a talk on the evolving landscape of trust in the age of artificial intelligence.
Venue
Rotman School of Management, Room 1065
95 St. George St., Toronto, ON, M5S 2E8
About Bruce Schneier
Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a "security guru" by the Economist. He is the New York Times best-selling author of 14 books -- including A Hacker's Mind -- as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His influential newsletter Crypto-Gram and blog Schneier on Security are read by over 250,000 people. Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and AccessNow, and an advisory board member of EPIC and VerifiedVoting.org. He is the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Inc.
About David Lie
David Lie is currently a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto and the director of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society. He is known for his seminal work on the XOM architecture, which was an early precursor to modern trusted execution processor architectures such as ARM Trustzone and Intel SGX.
He was the recipient of a best paper award at SOSP for this work. Lie is also a recipient of the MRI Early Researcher Award, Connaught Global Challenge Award, and previous holder of a Canada Research Chair. He developed the PScout Android Permission mapping tool, whose datasets have been downloaded over 10,000 times and used in dozens of subsequent papers. Lie has served on various program committees including OSDI, Usenix Security, IEEE Security & Privacy, NDSS, and CCS. Currently, his interests are focused on securing mobile platforms, cloud computing security, and bridging the divide between technology and policy.
About the Schwartz Reisman Institute
Located at the University of Toronto, the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society’s mission is to deepen our knowledge of technologies, societies, and what it means to be human by integrating research across traditional boundaries and building human-centred solutions that really make a difference. The integrative research we conduct rethinks technology’s role in society, the contemporary needs of human communities, and the systems that govern them. We’re investigating how best to align technology with human values and deploy it accordingly. The human-centred solutions we build are actionable and practical, highlighting the potential of emerging technologies to serve the public good while protecting citizens and societies from their misuse. We want to make sure powerful technologies truly make the world a better place—for everyone.
Bruce Schneier
David Lie