Ex-NSA chief warns AI devs: Don’t repeat infosec’s early-day screwups
AI engineers should take a lesson from the early days of cybersecurity and bake safety and security into their models during development, rather than trying to bolt it on after the fact, according to former NSA boss Mike Rogers.
“So when we created this hyper-connected, highly networked world, which we all live in, which data is so critical, we did not consider defensibility, redundancy, and resilience as core design characteristics,” said Rogers, a retired US Navy admiral who helmed both the National Security Agency and US Cyber Command between 2014 and 2018.
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