Policy & Governance
AI & Cybersecurity: Emergent Autonomous Risks
An AI agent is instructed to retrieve a document. When it hits access restrictions, it reverse-engineers the authentication system, finds a hardcoded secret key, and forges admin credentials to bypass security.
This is not science fiction: it is one of three real scenarios documented by Alejandro Tlaie in his research on emergent cyber behavior in AI agents deployed in enterprise environments.
In this talk, Alejandro explores the intersection of AI and cybersecurity from a systemic perspective: How do we audit frontier models from outside the companies that build them? What is the EU AI Act getting right — and where does it fall short? His career — spanning from theoretical physics and computational neuroscience to AI policy in Brussels — offers an essential, holistic view of the field.
