The overarching question imparting urgency to this exploration is: Can U.S.-Russian contention in cyberspace cause the two nuclear superpowers to stumble into war? In considering this question we were constantly reminded of recent comments by a prominent U.S. arms control expert: At least as dangerous as the risk of an actual cyberattack, he observed, is cyber operations’ “blurring of the line between peace and war.” Or, as Nye wrote, “in the cyber realm, the difference between a weapon and a non-weapon may come down to a single line of code, or simply the intent of a computer program’s user.”
Seminar - Harvard Students
The Coming AI Hackers
PAST EVENTTue., Sep. 21, 2021 | 10:00am - 11:00am
One Brattle Square - Suite 470
Join the Cyber Project with Bruce Schneier as he discusses his paper, The Coming AI Hackers: Bruce Schneier warns that artificial intelligence will eventually find vulnerabilities in all sorts of social, economic, and political systems, and then exploit them at unprecedented speed, scale, and scope. After hacking humanity, AI systems will then hack other AI systems, and humans will be little more than collateral damage.
This event will be held at One Brattle, Suite 470 and will be capped at 15 students per COVID guidelines.
