I think about things like this when people want to apply AI to critical tasks without testing or human intervention. And you should, too.

📢The program for CSF 2024 has been published! We have a very nice lineup of contributed talks on the foundations of computer security, and two excellent keynote speakers: John Mitchell (Stanford) and Peter Müller (ETH Zurich).

Remember CSng? I helped a prof organize it 3 times. When I left TUD, he removed my name from the organizing board without warning & didn't bother responding to my emails. Now I get added to the PC to review theses. How hard can it possibly be to be respectful of others? 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️

In cybersecurity... Automation is not a proper replacement for people. It breaks. It needs maintenance. It needs people to analyze the results. AI is not a proper replacement for people. It lies. A lot. Hire. More. People.

Stochastic parrots is an excellent term to define LLMs!

PhD students…

Giving a presentation on AI tomorrow. My thoughts in a meme...

A new year, a new program for our wonderful PhD Summer School! We rotate speakers for continued freshness and diversity of the line-up, which is both a privilege and a challenge when everyone in the pool of lecturers is so remarkable and truly dedicated to high-quality teaching.

Excellent opportunity for late stage MSc and early stage PhD students hoping to get a crash-course into ML+Sec&privacy!

The clock is ticking! Share your #cybersecurity knowledge with the world and submit your paper on our #CFP orangecon.nl/call_for_papers

HALLUCINATION IS A FEATURE NOT A BUG If you understand #LLMs, you don't trust them with anything you can't monitor and audit because their NATURE is to make things up! #Hallucination won't go away with more data or time. It will only get worse. Want solutions? Check out Eticas.ai | AI Audits

When the academic career doesn’t work out:

Reminder to reviewers, "should this be published" and "do I agree with this argument" are two different questions.

The SECAI Summer School program in Leuven cybersecurity-research.be/summer-school-… features 4 key pillars: foundational knowledge, selected expert topics, community building, and industry insights. See this year's breakdown of each pillar below:

Medewerkers van de TU Delft die pesten, intimidatie stalking, chantage of andere vormen van sociale onveiligheid meemaken, kunnen geen kant op, blijkt uit onderzoek van Delta. delta.tudelft.nl/article/slacht…

The victims of social unsafety at TU Delft get caught in a web of hierarchical uncertainty, a lack of action and unequal power relationships, reveals an investigation by Delta. This often worsens the situations of those seeking help. delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/vic…

Fatigue feels like you have sandbags tied to your feet while trying to walk. It feels like you haven’t slept in weeks. It feels like gravity is pulling you down. It feels like cotton balls are in your head, clouding everything. Fatigue is NOT the equivalent to being tired.

Academics: “one thing I love about this job is the freedom to make my own hours” Also academics:

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