AI offers unique advantages for cyber defense, including mass scale, blinding speed, agility, and above all, imagination capable of envisioning "minus day" attacks and quickly spotting "Zero day attacks." AI can also economically perform persistent, adaptive, pen testing, and is best suited for countering AI cyber attacks.

But AI also has unique weaknesses, chief among them, lack of transparency, vulnerability to corpora poisoning and an inverse relationship between adaptability and controllability (e.g. preventing rogue behavior).

This talk will highlight AI's unique strengths and weaknesses for cyber defense, describe strategies for exploiting those strengths while managing the weaknesses and forecast future developments in cyber AI.

Speaker: Dr. Eric Haseltine

Dr. Eric Haseltine is Chairman of the Board for the US Technology Leadership Council (USTLC). In this capacity, he is responsible for thought leadership around emerging R&D technologies important to national security, and advocates for private and public partnerships to advance those technologies.

Previously, Dr. Haseltine was Associate Director of National Intelligence for Science and Technology at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). In that role, he oversaw all science and technology efforts within the United States Intelligence Community as well as fostering development for innovative new technologies to counter cyber threats and terrorism. For his work on counter-terrorism technologies, he received the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal in 2007.

He previously served as Director of Research for the National Security Agency (NSA), joining in the aftermath of 9/11. There, Dr. Haseltine led efforts around signals intelligence (SIGINT) and information security (INFOSEC).

Prior to the NSA, Dr. Haseltine was Executive Vice President of Imagineering and head of R&D for The Walt Disney Company. In that role, he founded the Virtual Reality Studio, and led R&D across the Disney portfolio of film, television, theme parks, internet and consumer products.

Early in his career, Dr. Haseltine worked for Hughes Aircraft Company, rising to the position of Director of Engineering. Throughout his career, Dr. Haseltine has been at the forefront of technology and innovation, and intersecting it with national security.

Dr. Haseltine graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and psychology, and from Indiana University with a Doctorate physiological psychology. He has a certificate in executive management from the University of California, Los Angeles Anderson School of Management, and completed post-doctoral work in brain research at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.