Travel: DEF CON31 AI Village Travel

本会议提案请求资金支持学生参加定于2023年8月10日至13日在内华达州拉斯维加斯举行的DEF CON 31计算机安全会议。DEF CON会议汇集了计算机安全专业人士、记者、律师、联邦政府雇员、安全研究人员和对计算机系统各个方面（包括软件、计算机架构和硬件）的网络安全感兴趣的学生。活动包括围绕特定主题安排的专用空间“村庄”。今年，人工智能村将举办第一次公共生成人工智能网络安全活动，重点是测试几个工业人工智能平台。这笔资金将用于为27名社区大学生提供旅行支持。这种支持将扩大计算领域的参与，扩大人工智能和网络安全最新研究成果的传播，并有助于建立安全人工智能产品和系统的劳动力队伍。该项目的目标包括为人工智能模型和产品的开发提供信息，并更好地了解社区大学为对人工智能开发、管理和安全感兴趣的学生提供体验式学习的机会。SeedAI将与休斯顿社区学院（Houston Community College）合作，通过申请流程招募和选择学生。获得旅行支持的学生将与会议的其他与会者一起，为人工智能模型的大规模安全演习做出贡献。该项目将使学生了解计算机科学、网络、云和高性能计算环境的高增长领域。学生们还将与该领域的同行见面并进行交流，了解黑客马拉松是如何运作的，以及为什么它们可以成为人工智能和计算开发的重要工具。来自代表性不足群体的学生和有色人种学生将从他们的参与中受益，他们将获得洞察力和机会，使他们能够在计算和人工智能开发、基础设施创建和管理方面获得更高的学位；自信地踏入人工智能职业，并以他们独特而多样的观点告知人工智能系统基础设施。休斯顿社区学院大约65%的学生是黑人、原住民或有色人种，其中25%的学生就读于人工智能、计算机和工程专业。更大的科学和计算社区将受益于那些通常被排除在人工智能叙事之外的社区的声音。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This conference proposal requests funds to support student participation in the DEF CON 31 computer security conference, scheduled for August 10-13, 2023, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The DEF CON conference brings together computer security professionals, journalists, lawyers, federal government employees, security researchers, and students with an interest in cybersecurity for all aspects of computer systems, including software, computer architecture, and hardware. The event includes “villages” that are dedicated spaces arranged around a specific topic. This year the AI Village is hosting the first public generative AI cybersecurity event focused on testing several industrial AI platforms. The funds will be used to provide travel support for twenty-seven community college students. This support will broaden participation in computing, expand the dissemination of the latest research results on AI and cybersecurity, and help to build the workforce for secure AI products and systems.The goals of this project include informing the development of AI models and products, and gaining a better understanding of opportunities for community colleges to provide experiential learning to students interested in AI development, management, and security. SeedAI will partner with Houston Community College to recruit and select students using an application process. Students selected for the travel support will contribute to a large-scale security exercise for AI models, working alongside other attendees of the conference. The project will allow students to inform the high growth field of computer science, networking, cloud, and high-performance computing environments. Students will also meet and engage with peers in the field and develop an understanding of how hackathons work and why they can be important tools for AI and computing development. Students from underrepresented groups and students of color will benefit from their participation by acquiring insight and access that positions them to pursue higher degrees in computing and AI development, infrastructure creation, and management; step confidently into AI careers, and inform AI system infrastructure with their unique and diverse perspectives. Approximately sixty-five percent of Houston Community College students are Black, indigenous or people of color and 25% of those are enrolled in the AI, computing, and engineering tracks. The larger scientific and computing community will benefit from voices that represent communities commonly left out of the AI narrative.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.