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URL:https://oxon.bcs.org/programme/powerful-useful-dangerous-why-ai-keeps-
 me-awake-at-night/
SUMMARY:Powerful\, useful\, dangerous: Why AI keeps me awake at night
DESCRIPTION:\nDr Jason R C Nurse (MBCS\, FHEA)\nArtificial Intelligence (AI
 ) offers powerful new ways to work and solve problems\, but it also create
 s opportunities for misuse and raises difficult questions about its effect
 s on people. From cybercriminals using AI to strengthen their attacks to r
 eports of agents escaping their sandboxes and targeting real organisations
  and governments\, the risks are becoming harder to ignore. The talk also 
 considers how models can mirror users and reinforce what they want to hear
 \, rather than offer an honest response. Together\, these issues reveal wh
 y AI’s promise and danger deserve a closer look\, and why the subject ke
 eps me awake at night.\nBio:\nDr Jason R.C. Nurse is a Reader in Cybersecu
 rity at the University of Kent\, UK. He also holds the roles of Associate 
 Fellow at The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)\, Visiting Fellow in 
 Defence and Security at Cranfield University\, and Research Member of Wolf
 son College\, University of Oxford. His research specialises in the human 
 aspect of cybersecurity and AI including human cyber risk\, cyber psycholo
 gy and AI-enabled threats. Dr Nurse has published close to 200 peer-review
 ed articles in prestigious security venues\, and his research has been fea
 tured in national and international media including the BBC\, Associated P
 ress\, The Wall Street Journal\, The Washington Post\, Newsweek\, Wired\, 
 The Telegraph\, and The Independent. Prior to joining Kent\, Dr Nurse was 
 a Senior Researcher in Cyber Security at the University of Oxford and befo
 re that\, a Research Fellow in Psychology at the University of Warwick.
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