AIV31: AI Village at DEF CON 31 DEF CON 31 Las Vegas, NV, United States, August 10-13, 2023

The AI Village will be returning to DEF CON 31, and is looking for talks, presentations, and tools!  

As machine learning and artificial intelligence continue to expand into more areas of our day-to-day lives, our call for papers this year focuses on offensive techniques with and against machine learning and AI systems. We want to know how you’re building AI systems to help you perform offensive operations, and how you’re breaking AI systems in the wild.  We want to hear about what responsible disclosure might look like, what “ethical hacking” of AI systems looks like, and – most of all – how AI is enabling you to be more effective in offensive operations and what digital skulls you’ve added to your own personal AI Skull Throne.

The AI Village is soliciting short (20 minutes + 10 for questions) and long (40 minutes + 20 for questions) presentations, as well as new tool and technique demonstrations, at the intersection of offensive security and AI in the following areas:

• Endpoint and network security
• Physical security and surveillance
• Privacy of personal information
• Reconnaissance and intelligence gathering and analysis
• Attacks against autonomous systems, including vehicles and ICSs
• Human-machine pairing for offensive operations
• Case studies of using AI/ML in offensive operations
• Case studies of attacks on AI/ML-enabled systems
• Use of generative models in offensive operations
• Assessment and evaluation of AI/ML models

We are also interested in other work at the intersection of security and AI that might not slot neatly into any of those categories, however our focus this year is on offensive operations in practical settings. 

Submission is extended abstract-only, and must contain the following elements:

• A title, list of contributors/authors, corresponding presenter email, and the estimated duration of the presentation.
• A one-paragraph abstract that provides a summary of the topic 
• An outline of the presentation with approximate timing
• Two to three sentences explaining what the DEF CON audience will find interesting or exciting about it. 
• If you will be presenting a new tool or technique

Abstract space is limited to 20,000 characters. Please be as detailed as possible in your submissions in the space provided -- remember, DEF CON is a hacker conference, not an academic one! Catering your talk to DEF CON attendees will greatly improve your chances for acceptance.

All presentations will be in-person, and speakers are requested to bring their own laptop with slides, tools, or demos pre-loaded. We request that only a single speaker present.

The deadline for submissions is 12am 17 June 2023, anywhere on earth. We plan to notify all submitters by email by 7 July 2023.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at cfp@aivillage.org.