Program Description

Emerging advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have created rich opportunities to increase productivity and increase access to expert resources in many high-takes domains e.g., finance, healthcare, energy. This presentation will provide a background on how AI without guardrails used for decision making as a financial advisor, psychotherapist or cybersecurity analyst can become a threat vector (as a “foe”) and can be a source of harmful advice. However, when designed with a safety layer, AI tools can be used to create human-AI teaming (as a “friend”) that can provide intelligent decision making abilities to improve the practice of providing advice on wealth management, or becoming a support system for mental health. The presentation will conclude with details on the potential to use new AI-based methods being developed to protect the modern smart grid systems against sophisticated cyber attacks by fusing knowledge graphs of electric grids, cybersecurity, and expert social networks.