CSCI1640

AI and Security

Spring 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) concerns the design of machines that perceive the environment and learn from experience to act wisely. Security concerns the protection against machines that exploit opportunities and behave maliciously to inflict harm. CSCI1640 will study these two fast-growing, practice-relevant and life-impactful CS fields, conjointly, as they relate, influence or apply to each other. With new concepts introduced from the ground up and using both a holistic and an analytical exposition of ideas, CSCI1640 will address the question of “How do AI and Security intersect, interleave or interfere?” and will cover a variety of topics around the impact that AI has to Security and the role that Security has in AI. Topics include trustworthy and privacy-preserving Machine Learning (ML), secure federated learning, crypto-enhanced neural networks, adversarial ML, ML-based security and cyberattacks, rational cryptography, generative AI, AI safety and superintelligence.

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