Invited by Neil Murphy, CEO of Bytes, one of the UK's largest value added technology resellers, to keynote its annual partner and supplier conference at the Science Museum in London.
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Neil Murphy, CEO of Bytes, one of the UK's largest value added technology resellers, invited Matthew to keynote its annual partner and supplier conference at the Science Museum in London. His brief was a trifecta: the future of AI, cyber and data, three intertwined topics that are becoming harder to see, understand and manage as the days pass.
He started with AI: what comes after the generative AI and large language models that dominated the year's news, including so called actionable AI, even larger foundation models, the rise of specialised AIs, and the emergence of artificial general intelligence and artificial superintelligence.
"AI, cyber, and data are three major topics that are all intertwined, and all of them are becoming more complex to see, understand, and manage as the days pass by."Matthew Griffin, London, December 2023
On cyber, he walked through the emerging threats and threat vectors companies now need to prepare for: weaponised robo-hackers, self-evolving polymorphic malware, adversarial AI attacks, the use of human psychology to jailbreak the latest LLMs, and new malware that can brick hardware, a world first.
He closed on the future of data, from generative and synthetic data to the many new ways these and other datasets can be compromised to break, and even destroy, the most sophisticated AIs in use today.
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What this means for your leadership team
Manage the three as one risk.
Matthew treated AI, cyber and data as one intertwined topic. Security, data and AI teams that plan separately will leave gaps between them.
Protect the AI, not just the network.
Adversarial attacks and jailbreaks aim at the models themselves. AI systems need their own testing, monitoring and incident plans.
Guard the data that trains your AI.
Compromised and synthetic datasets can break even the most sophisticated AIs. Data provenance becomes a security control.
Three questions for your next leadership meeting
Who owns the security of our AI models, not just our networks?
How would we know if the data behind our AI had been tampered with?
Do our AI, data and security teams plan together?
The trends and technologies behind this session
From the 311 Starburst, the 311 Strategic Intelligence Unit’s map of the technologies and trends shaping the next 50 years.
What does the convergence of AI, cyber and data mean for organisations?
Attacks now target AI models and the data they learn from, not just networks. Organisations need joint plans across AI, data and security teams.
How does Adversarial Artificial Intelligence relate to this keynote?
The keynote covered adversarial AI attacks that trick AI systems with inputs made to fool them. The 311 Starburst expects this field to reach wide use around 2027.
What is Adversarial Cyber Defence?
It spots attackers early and fights back as the attack happens. The 311 Starburst expects wide use around 2029.
How can 311 brief our leadership team on this?
Through a private executive briefing or leadership workshop, tailored to your sector, in person first.
Bring this to your leadership teamA private executive briefing or leadership workshop, tailored to your sector. In person first, anywhere in the world.
Analysis by the 311 Strategic Intelligence Unit, from Matthew Griffin’s session and 311 data.
If Matthew gave this session today
AI systems can slip beyond human control.
Rogue AI and The Unkillable Machine looks at what happens when AI systems slip beyond human control and what leaders need to do about it, the next step on from the attacks on AI and data Matthew described for Bytes.
