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Dec 2024
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Defending the Digital Mind: The Emerging...

World Economic Forum
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From vulnerabilities associated with autonomous decision-making to AI-powered attacks, rapid advances in AI agents can pose novel threats to organizations and society.

What responsibility-based strategies must businesses adopt to leverage AI agents effectively while minimizing emerging cybersecurity risks?

This is the full audio from a discussion hosted at the World Economic Forum in Geneva on 13 November, 2024. The video is available to Forum digital subscribers here: https://toplink.weforum.org/event-mode/a0PTG0000004wNC2AY/sessions/a0WTG000000TESb2AO/defending-the-digital-mind-the-emerging-challenges-of-ai-agents

Speakers:

Grant Waterfall, Partner, Europe, Middle East and Africa and Germany; Leader, Cybersecurity and Privacy, PwC

Hoda Al Khzaimi, Director, Centre for Cybersecurity, New York University Abu Dhabi

Matan Getz, Chief Executive Officer, Aim Security

Nic Chavez, Chief Information Security Officer, Datastax

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