#95 – Dawn Song: Adversarial Machine Learning and Computer Security

Dawn Song is a professor of computer science at UC Berkeley with research interests in security, most recently with a focus on the intersection between computer security and machine learning.

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EPISODE LINKS: Dawn's Twitter: https://twitter.com/dawnsongtweets Dawn's Website: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dawnsong/ Oasis Labs: https://www.oasislabs.com

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OUTLINE: 00:00 - Introduction 01:53 - Will software always have security vulnerabilities? 09:06 - Human are the weakest link in security 16:50 - Adversarial machine learning 51:27 - Adversarial attacks on Tesla Autopilot and self-driving cars 57:33 - Privacy attacks 1:05:47 - Ownership of data 1:22:13 - Blockchain and cryptocurrency 1:32:13 - Program synthesis 1:44:57 - A journey from physics to computer science 1:56:03 - US and China 1:58:19 - Transformative moment 2:00:02 - Meaning of life https://lexfridman.com/dawn-song/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dawn-song

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