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Finding — and preventing — vulnerabilities in machine learning models

Nobody talking about AI security vulnerabilities. Everyone's rushing to deploy. Few are securing their models.

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As enterprises rapidly deploy AI systems, model security and trustworthiness becomes a critical business risk that most companies aren't adequately addressing.

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  1. Bo Li appointed as Amazon Visiting Academic

  2. Former Amazon Research Award recipient

  3. Focus on explainable machine learning vulnerabilities

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Publisher excerpt: Bo Li — a new Amazon Visiting Academic and former Amazon Research Award recipient — is making sure algorithms are not only smarter but more trustworthy.
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