In the AI Risk Reward podcast, our host, Alec Crawford, Founder and CEO of Artificial Intelligence Risk, Inc. aicrisk.com interviews guests about balancing the risk and reward of Artificial Intelligence for you, your business, and society as a whole.

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In episode 13 of AI Risk Reward, Alec Crawford interviews Elie Bursztein, Cybersecurity and AI Research Lead at Google DeepMind. They discuss Elie's early experiences with computers, magic tricks, and his art foundation, https://etteilla.org/en/. They also touch on the Culture series by Ian Banks and Elie's PhD thesis on game theory applied to network security. Elie discusses his journey from engineering to research and his experiences at Google. He emphasizes the importance of resilience and the ability to adapt in the face of challenges. Elie also delves into the current state of cybersecurity for large language models, highlighting the need for basic security practices and the challenges of aligning models with ethical standards. He concludes by discussing the potential of AI in finding and patching vulnerabilities.

Books/Movies/References

• The Culture Series by Ian Banks
• The Art of Magic Tricks