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Learn the rules: The hacker mindset

It offers perspective on the intersection of cybersecurity, human trust, and autonomous AI defense systems from the leader of DARPA's pioneering Cyber Grand Challenge.

In a Microsoft Research podcast episode, research manager Mike Walker discusses his background in hacker culture, the social context of rules in cybersecurity, and his career leading AI and cyber defense projects. Walker previously led DARPA's Cyber Grand Challenge, an all-machine hacking tournament demonstrating autonomous AI systems capable of finding and patching software vulnerabilities.

  • Microsoft Research
  • Mike Walker
  • Weishung Liu
  • DARPA
  1. Microsoft Research

    Learn the rules: The hacker mindset

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