Lex Fridman Podcast

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

05.12.2020 - By Lex FridmanPlay

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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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Here's the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.

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

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