How a Chinese scientist in the US is helping defend AI systems from cyberattacks


Artificial intelligence can be vulnerable to attacks that are invisible to humans but wreak havoc on computer systems. Li Bo, an award-winning scientist, leads a team that works with IBM and financial institutions to defend against cyberattacks. — SCMP

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been used to defeat world-renowned Go players or beat humans in video games, but the technology has weaknesses, which can be exploited by cyberattacks.

During Li Bo’s postdoctoral research three years ago at the University of California, Berkeley, the Chinese scholar and her collaborators from other institutions designed a scenario that could easily fool AI-based autonomous driving systems.

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