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Ram Shankar

Ram Shankar

Data Cowboy
Microsoft
Ram Shankar Siva Kumar is a Data Cowboy at Microsoft where he leads the AI Red Team. He is also affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University,

Speaker sessions

Lessons Learned from Red Teaming 100 GenAI Systems

In this talk, the Head of Microsoft’s AI Red Team will walk through the lessons learned from red teaming more than 100 Generative AI applications. The audience will learn about traditional security harms, content-safety harms, and frontier harms such as persuasion and self-replication - and how to effectively probe for them.
  • 14:00
  • Wed
  • 03 Dec
Stage: Deep Dive
Sessions Type: Presentation

Book Signing

Not with a Bug, but with a Sticker: Attacks on Machine Learning Systems and What to Do About Them
  • 15:00
  • Wed
  • 03 Dec
Stage: Black Hat Campus
Sessions Type: Book Signing

The Daily Drop - Live from Black Hat MEA (Day 2)

Join Ram Shankar and Jaya Baloo at The Back Room Live as they break down Day 2 of Black Hat MEA - the key highlights, unexpected moments, big themes, and everything that shaped the energy of the day. A fast, engaging recap capturing the pulse of the conference at 4:00 PM.
  • 16:00
  • Wed
  • 03 Dec
Stage: The Back Room
Sessions Type: Podcast