Postgraduate students, fellows, staff and faculty from any discipline are welcome. This group aims to foster frequent interdisciplinary critical dialogue across Oxford and beyond about the political impacts of emerging technologies. Please contact Elisabeth Siegel at elisabeth.siegel@politics.ox.ac.uk or Brian Kot at brian.kot@politics.ox.ac.uk in advance to participate or with any questions. Remote attendance is possible, but in-person attendance is prioritized (and provided refreshment).

Abstract: This talk will describe the primary cybersecurity threats arising from AI systems, especially important cybersecurity threats to AI systems, how we might mitigate these threats via information sharing mechanisms, and how to harness the cybersecurity opportunities that arise from contemporary AI systems.

About the speaker: Elias Groll is an MPP candidate at the Blavatnik School of Government and a research affiliate at the Oxford Martin School’s AI Governance Initiative. He was formerly a journalist working on technology and national security issues based in Washington, D.C., with a particular focus on cybersecurity. He was a staff writer and editor at Foreign Policy magazine, the managing editor at the Brookings Institution’s AI and Emerging Technology Initiative, and, most recently, the senior editor at CyberScoop, a trade publication covering cybersecurity issues where he supervised the reporting team and wrote about AI security issues.