We live in an exciting world of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques and developments. Indeed, recent results with deep learning would look like magic only a few years ago. For instance, ChatGPT showcases the amazing potential of deep learning and attracts the general audience's attention. As such, the statement that AI is new electricity does not sound like an exaggeration.
The improvements in AI also bring consequent improvements in all domains that utilize AI. AI has become an emerging technology for assessing security and is becoming more relevant in cryptography. Initially, AI was mostly used in topics like implementation attacks, physically unclonable functions, and hardware Trojans. More recently, we have seen increased interest in topics like machine learning-based cryptanalysis, the security of machine learning, and how to use concepts from cryptography to improve it.
While these applications and improvements observed are noteworthy, the AI community is progressing even faster. Due to the need for faster and more error-free solutions, we expect the interplay between AI and cryptography only to increase. Such improvements can come from the developments in AI, but also by realizing what already developed techniques can be used in cryptography. Moreover, since AI has become pervasive, the security of AI opens new challenges. It would be interesting to understand how to use well-utilized techniques in cryptography to make AI more secure.
The goal of the workshop is to gather researchers from academia and industry that work on various aspects of cryptography and AI to share their experiences and discuss how to strengthen the collaboration.