On 19 July 2024, ESRP and Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA organized a symposium “US-Japan Al Security: Adversarial Al Risks and Mitigation Strategies for Disinformation and Cyber Threats”.
ESRP invited a policy maker for AI technology from US Department of Homeland Security and three AI experts from the US. They gave lectures on their field and discussed AI policies with Akira Igata, Director of ESRP.
Amy Henninger from US Department of Homeland Security classified attacks by AI and attacks to AI. After that, she explained the correlation between the field of AI and that of cyber security. She pointed out that it is important to make policies that are reasonable for each classification and field.
Maria Glenski from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory pointed out that the speed and the amount of information spreading are growing larger due to the development of information technology. She expressed the opinion that controlling information that flows into AI is becoming significant.
Edmon Begoli from Oak Ridge National Laboratory pointed out that there are many issues for AI implementations on various fields. He expressed opinion that fundamental research is important for the development of AI technology.
Michael Goldman from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory explained each field has its own risks for AI implementation. He pointed out “Data Governance”, how we use the date for AI is becoming more important.
In the discussion and Q&A session, the topics that are essential for AI policies such as “Fields that Japan can contribute to AI security”, “Problems about the transparency of AI”, and “Risks of AI, including data poisoning” were discussed.
In the middle of the US-Japan alliance is strengthening, this symposium, that experts who came from the US discussed AI, one of the advance technologies has been meaningful.
