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Latest Read: Not with a Bug, But with a Sticker

Not with a Bug, But with a Sticker: Attacks on Machine Learning Systems and What to Do about Them by Ram Shankar Siva Kumar and Hyrum Anderson.

Not with a Bug, But with a Sticker: Attacks on Machine Learning Systems and What to Do about Them by Ram Shankar Siva Kumar and Hyrum Anderson

Ram Shankar holds a Masters degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. For over 10 years he has worked as a Data Cowboy at Microsoft in the Azure Security data science team.

Hyrum holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington. He is a former Principal architect at Microsoft and co-found er of CAMLIS. Today Hyrum is CTO of Robust Intelligence.

Ram Shanker and Hyrum introduce adversarial machine learning, the dedicated field launching cyber attacks upon AI. While this is a most timely book to release, it should have been published twenty years ago so the impact could be well understood.

Perhaps it will clash with Wall Street and Silicon Valley desire to overcome slumping known PC sales and be the spark to drive billions in revenue for a new class of technology companies while reinforcing the market cap of established companies. So, let the voice of Ram Shanker and Hyrum, who attack AI machines for a living provide deep insights. In fact, most of us do not consider the civil liberty implications of attacking AI systems.