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Audience Level
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Building Secure Technology
Hacking, Red Teaming
Law, Policy and Global Power
Leadership, Governance and Accountability
People, Culture and Workforce
Running Secure Operations
Breakout

When generative AI goes to war: Why ethics theatre, human-in-the-loop myths, and weak governance are failing cyber security today at scale

Timothy McIntosh & Sherry Wu
Wed
 
14 Oct
11:10 am
 - 
11:50 am
Room 219/220
Leadership, Governance and Accountability
Governing Autonomous and AI-Driven Systems

Ethics statements and human-in-the-loop reviews are not real controls for autonomous AI agents; this session argues for hard runtime limits instead.

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General

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