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An inside look at how Google DeepMind detects and defends against attempts by threat actors, including state sponsored groups, to misuse Gemini across the stages of a cyberattack, from reconnaissance and phishing to malware development and vulnerability research, and the safeguards built in response.
Speakers & affiliations: Raluca Ada Popa, Gemini security lead at Google DeepMind and Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley
Session: Operational Experience 3 · Friday, May 29
Key terms: AI misuse, threat intelligence, adversarial AI, cyberattack lifecycle, Gemini security, safety classifiers, CodeMender (vulnerability detection and repair)
ACM Digital Library: N/A. Invited operational experience talk, one of three such talks, distinct from the peer reviewed proceedings papers, no individual DOI. (Proceedings: 10.1145/3786335.)
An inside look at how Google DeepMind detects and defends against attempts by threat actors, including state sponsored groups, to misuse Gemini across the stages of a cyberattack, from reconnaissance and phishing to malware development and vulnerability research, and the safeguards built in response.
Speakers & affiliations: Raluca Ada Popa, Gemini security lead at Google DeepMind and Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley
Session: Operational Experience 3 · Friday, May 29
Key terms: AI misuse, threat intelligence, adversarial AI, cyberattack lifecycle, Gemini security, safety classifiers, CodeMender (vulnerability detection and repair)
ACM Digital Library: N/A. Invited operational experience talk, one of three such talks, distinct from the peer reviewed proceedings papers, no individual DOI. (Proceedings: 10.1145/3786335.)
