VIDEO / SUMMARY 28 SEP 2026: Royal Society – Safe, secure and robust AI for safety-critical systems

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On 28 September 2026, at  Royal Society Publishing hosted ‘Safe, secure and robust AI for safety-critical systems‘, a virtual seminar in its ‘Behind the paper with Royal Society journals‘ series.

Authors presented work from the theme issue ‘Safe, secure and robust AI for safety-critical systems‘ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, compiled and edited by Ajitha Rajan and Desmond J. Higham. The talks asked whether AI can safely be deployed in safety-critical systems and whether AI systems can be secure, and examine prompt engineering as a way to mitigate medical bias in large language models.

SPEAKERS
Tamara G. Kolda – MathSci.ai: ‘Is it safe to deploy AI in safety-critical systems?’
Desmond Higham – University of Edinburgh: ‘Can AI systems be secure?’
Ying Xiao – King’s College London: ‘Mitigating medical bias in large language models by prompt engineering: an empirical study of effectiveness and trade-offs’

CHAIR
Ajitha Rajan – University of Edinburgh

#AISafety #AI #LLMs #PhilTransA

5:42 am on June 25, 2026 · 2026 (279), AI Security (3), google (23), Route Fifty (1)

WEBINAR 21 JUL 18:00 UTC – Route Fifty | Future Nation: AI-Enabled Security

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Promotional graphic for an “AI-Enabled Security” event on July 21, 2026. The design uses a dark blue cyber-themed cityscape background with glowing digital effects. At the top are logos for Route Fifty, Future Nation, and Google Public Sector. Large white text reads “AI-ENABLED Security,” with “Security” in oversized italic serif lettering. On the right side is a glowing padlock graphic with network-style line patterns and a fingerprint icon below. Near the bottom center is a stylized login form with username and password fields and a blue “Sign In” button. The date “July 21 2026” appears in large white text at lower left.
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On Tuesday, 21 July 2026, at 14:00-15:00 EDT (18:00-19:00 UTC), Route Fifty hosts a Future Nation webinar ‘AI-Enabled Security‘.

State and local governments are on the front lines of a rapidly evolving cybersecurity landscape, where artificial intelligence is changing how attacks are carried out and how defenses are built. Adversaries use AI to automate and scale their efforts, making attacks faster and more targeted, while state and local teams must protect critical infrastructure, public safety systems, and resident data with limited resources and growing risk. This session will explore how state and local cybersecurity leaders are using AI to strengthen detection, response, and overall resilience. Speakers will share how they are improving visibility across distributed environments, prioritizing threats, and responding in real time. The conversation will also examine how threat actors are evolving, what that means for states, cities, and counties, and how leaders can better prepare for future threats.

Future Nation is an ongoing, thematic editorial series and digital event series underwritten by Google Public Sector. It is designed for state and local government leaders, focusing on how emerging technologies—particularly artificial intelligence—impact the public sector, workforce modernization, and service delivery.

#Cybersecurity #AI #StateAndLocal #PublicSector

Jan 20 2026 – Entering a New Era of Human Civilization: A Discussion with Craig Mundie and Tom Friedman

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On January 20 2026, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford Data Science, and the Starling Lab for Data Integrity, hosted “Entering a New Era of Human Civilization: A Discussion with Craig Mundie and Tom Friedman”

As AI continues its unprecedented transformation of our world, Craig and Tom discussed their 25-year friendship and the recent trends that led them to conclude, in a recent op-ed, that we’ve entered a new era of human civilization.

What do we call this new era? What will the impact be on our daily lives, and our geopolitics? Craig and Tom tackled these questions by discussing a new technical and normative framework to establish trust in AI systems. This work emerged from conversations with leaders across the U.S., Europe, and China, and has now arrived at Stanford as part of a new multi-department Stanford initiative researching AI trust frameworks.

INTRODUCTIONS
Russell Wald – Executive Director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (Stanford HAI)
Colin Kahl – Director, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

SPEAKERS
Thomas Friedman – Journalist / author (NY Times)
Craig Mundie – Technologist (ex-Microsoft)
Moderator: John Hennessy – Stanford School of Engineering

#AISafety #AISecurity @StanfordHAI @FSIStanford @tomfriedman