Anticipating Threats, Ensuring Accountability in AI Security – Northwestern University

Anticipating Threats, Ensuring Accountability in AI Security  Northwestern University

As AI becomes central to national and global security strategies, errors or exploits in algorithmic decision-making carry higher stakes, with the potential to shift the global balance of power. On October 22, the Northwestern Security & AI Lab (NSAIL) convened leading experts from around the world for the annual Conference on AI & National Security. The event explored critical issues around the role of frontier and military AI in national security, counterterrorism, and geopolitical decision-making. More than 425 individuals registered to attend, either in person or online. “U.S. national security, and indeed all of our security, depends on decision makers both leveraging AI and mitigating the threats AI poses,” Northwestern Provost Erik Luijten said in his opening remarks.

“That is where research, dialogue, and gatherings like this come in—and why Northwestern is committed to harnessing our hallmark culture of interdisciplinarity to build networks across the University and beyond, enabling us to learn from one another." V.S. SubrahmanianNSAIL Head, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Computer Science in Northwestern Engineering and Faculty Fellow at the Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs NSAIL is led by V.S. Subrahmanian, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Computer Science at Northwestern Engineering and a faculty fellow at the Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs. The lab conducts fundamental research in AI relevant to issues of