SydeLabs founders Ruchir Patwa and Ankita Kumari
SydeLabs
Artificial intelligence is the buzzword of our time, with technologists insisting that every organisation should be making use of AI to remain competitive. But what if adopting AI also makes you more vulnerable to a damaging cyber attack? That is the fear of a growing number of cyber security experts, who warn that the nature of AI tools and applications, including generative AI platforms, means they have blind spots that fraudsters and criminals could exploit – with disastrous consequences.
Enter SydeLabs, a San Francisco-based start-up launched earlier this year to tackle exactly this problem – and which is today announcing the successful completion of a $2.5 million seed funding round. “The rise of AI makes it essential that we think more deeply about how to prevent AI applications going rogue,” says Ankita Kumari,…
