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The Dark Side of AI: Crime and Adversarial Use Cases

“The Dark Side of AI: Crime and Adversarial Use Cases” webinar session featured the following speakers and topics:

  • Bruce Schneier (Harvard): Hackers and Security Vulnerabilities
  • Matt Groh (Northwestern): Deepfakes and Misinformation, see related paper The Art and Science of Generative AI
  • Shlomit Wagman (Harvard): Financial Crime
  • Jennifer Calvery (HSBC): Financial Crime

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Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation,  GETTING-Plurality

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Democracy and AI

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