Cyber_Ready_Symposium_Extra_Credit - aaralik1/SYS-255 GitHub Wiki

These are the notes I gathered from one of the presentations that happened at the Cyber Ready Symposium on October 26th, 2024. The presenter’s name was Shaffick Mohammed and he is a Lead System Engineer in Enterprise Business Solutions at AT&T. The presentation took a look into AI and its usage and integrity of it. Here are my notes;

• AI has been around since the 1940s.
• AI can very well be biased.
• Use AI as a tool but don’t use it to define you and find your own full solution.
• Using just AI in general isn't the best and what's best is to stop and think for a second about what you actually are looking for.
• Put cybersecurity first.
• Remain safe and stop and ask questions along the way.
• On the positive side you can use AI to summarize information and give you a sense of guidance. It will help you refresh your memory when you are stuck on a question.
• In the education industry, it is important to get to know the student in order to make sure they aren't using AI all the time to complete their assignments. With the usage of AI, the students won’t learn much.
• In the healthcare industry, not every device is properly secured so it is important to be mindful and not trust AI fully.
• Some people are becoming irrelevant because AI is the only information source that they know and that they are attached to.
• In a survey of 30 students aged 18-40 years old, when asked about, “How does AI impact your life?”, the most chosen answer was ‘false reality’.
• People were able to predict how many outages were going to happen due to hurricanes in the South based on historical data. These are the benefits of using AI and in this case, it benefitted in sending help sooner.
• Deep Fakes are being increasingly used recently and are very dangerous because it is impersonating someone and which is a form of identity theft. Threat actors look into social media accounts to capture faces and voices of others and use it against them for ransom. This is part of virtual kidnapping which is using AI to impersonate someone.

Moral notes taken during the presentation;

• Never be afraid to ask a question because the question you don't ask is the thing you will not learn.
• Do not burn bridges, you would need to re-establish some of the connections so it is important to keep connections open.