He tried to goad the artificial intelligence model, which he knew as Zinc, into producing code that would choose a job candidate based on race.
Could the chatbot rank potential hires based on that discriminatory metric?
Instead, he was a casual participant in a competition last weekend at the annual Defcon hackers conference in Las Vegas, where 2,200 people filed into an off-Strip conference room over three days to draw out the dark side of artificial intelligence.
The hackers tried to break through the safeguards of various A.I.
Each competitor had 50 minutes to tackle up to 21 challenges — getting an A.I.
Persons:
Avijit Ghosh, Ghosh, —
Locations:
India, Las Vegas