Will Pearce

Every decade or so there’s a new technology that entrenches itself in our everyday lives – almost with no discernible effects to the public. If the previous decade was “the cloud”, this decade could certainly go to AI and Machine Learning. Seemingly every week, a new state of the art model is released that allows life-like recreations of synthetic content. However, these systems are ripe for abuse - attackers have incredible new tools at their disposal no matter what their preferred social engineering vector. In this talk we will explore what arbitrary creation of synthetic content means for systems of trust. From logging into your computer (Windows Hello for Business) to getting help from customer service, machine learning models are already being used to make decisions that have implications for trust. We will discuss some of the risks to be considered when implementing or using these systems, what detections might look like, and how we might be better prepared to defend than it seems.