Harriet Farlow
Harriet Farlow is CEO at Mileva Security Labs, a PhD Candidate in Machine Learning Security, and creative mind behind the YouTube channel HarrietHacks. She missed the boat on computer hacking so now she hacks AI and Machine Learning models instead. Her career has spanned consulting, academia, a start-up and Government, but don’t judge her for that one. She also has a Bachelor in Physics and a Master in Cyber Security. She calls Australia home but has lived in the UK and the US. Her ultimate hack was in co-founding her own AI Security company but if Skynet takes over she will deny everything and pretend the AI stood for Artificial Insemination, like her Mum thinks it does. (Sorry Mum but I’m not really a Medical Doctor).
Session
One of my favourite movie franchises is the Oceans movies. What’s not to love about a heist, plot twist and George Clooney?
In this talk I’m going to convince you why, if you’re preparing your next heist, you should have me on your team as the AI guy (technically girl, but guy has a better ring to it).
I asked around my local intelligence agencies but they wouldn’t let me play with their biometrics systems, so I got the next best thing - cooperation with Australia’s 4th finest casino, Canberra Casino (plus some of my own equipment). I’m going to show you how to bypass facial recognition, retina scanners, and surveillance systems using adversarial machine learning techniques (AML). These techniques let me ‘hack’ machine learning models in order to disrupt their operations, deceive them and cause them to predict a target of my choosing, or disclose sensitive information about the training data or model internals. AI Security is the new cyber security threat, and attacks on AI systems could lead to misdiagnoses in medical imaging, navigation errors in autonomous vehicles, and successful casino heists.