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DSU student shares lessons from hacker conference

Ben Bowman at the 2023 Legislative Research Day Student Poster Session
Dakota State University
Ben Bowman at the 2023 Legislative Research Day Student Poster Session

This interview originally aired on In the Moment on SDPB Radio.

Cybersecurity experts gathered in Las Vegas this summer for the Def Con hacker conference. Dakota State University student Ben Bowman was among the attendees.

The conference put current artificial intelligence models in the hands of contestants and asked the experts to break them. That exposed vulnerabilities.

Bowman discusses how the risks of AI decrease as the technology is perfected.

Read his NPR feature.

Lori Walsh is a special correspondent with SDPB and host of the "In the Moment" podcast.
Ellen Koester served as a producer of "In the Moment," SDPB's daily news and culture broadcast.
Ari Jungemann served as a producer of In the Moment, SDPB's daily news and culture broadcast.

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