Attackers increasingly try to confuse and bypass machine-learning systems. So the companies that deploy them are getting creative, spending heavily in recent years to deploy AI systems for tasks such as understanding the content of images or text.

… The work of protecting AI systems bears similarities to conventional computer security. Facebook’s AI red team gets its name from a term for exercises in which hackers working for an organization probe its defenses by role-playing as attackers. They know that any fixes they deploy may be side-stepped as their adversaries come up with new tricks and attacks. Read More