MBA ITB program invited a professor from the University of Waterloo, Nadarajah Asokan. Prof. Asokan to be a guest lecture on Business Ethics, Law and Sustainability course, entitled “Cyber Security, Personal Data and Artificial Intelligence,” on Tuesday (5/7) at Bandung Campus. The guest lecture was also attended by the lecturer of the Business Ethics course, Andika Putra Pratama, Ph.D., and two students from the School of Electrical and Informatics Engineering ITB under Prof. Asokan’s supervision.
Prof. Asokan is the Security Systems Group (SSG) Chair at the University of Waterloo, Canada. The department focuses on understanding how to simultaneously design and build secure, easy-to-use, and inexpensive systems. Prof. Asokan has also been a researcher at well-known companies, such as IBM and Nokia.
The lecture started with the big picture of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Prof. Asokan explained the description of artificial intelligence on the Twitter platform.
In 2016, Microsoft created a chatbot that was released on Twitter, named Tay. Tay quickly became negatively popular on Twitter for his misogynistic and racist responses. In addition, on the same platform, Twitter is suspected of being racist in applying filters for uploading photos. Twitter photo preview appears to favor white faces over black faces.
Systematically, machine learning gets a set of data. The data is then trained and inputted by algorithms and statistical models to obtain the best model for machine learning according to the intended use.
Prof. Asokan explained that there are many ways for criminals to intervene through the system. It can be from the data owner, model owner, or service provider. Everything in the flow is vulnerable to criminal intervention, such as data abuse.
Cybersecurity continues to require extensive development and exploration. Prof. Asokan emphasizes the necessity of government involvement in establishing robust laws and regulations within each country to build a reliable cyber system.
