It can feel like every new consumer device comes with some kind of voice integration. While this is often a win for usability, freeing up our hands and eyes to do other tasks, there's also something inherently creepy/unsettling about devices that speak and listen to us.
In this talk I'll be covering a range of exploratory work on privacy and security issues with conversational devices, how these are intensified by the way that computer speech is processed in the brain, and how we might be able to navigate a path out of the mess we've gotten ourselves into.
William Seymour is a Lecturer in Cybersecurity and member of the Cyber Security Group in the Department of Informatics at King’s College London. Before coming to King’s as a postdoctoral researcher, he obtained a DPhil in Cybersecurity from the University of Oxford and an MEng in Computer Science from the University of Warwick.
William conducts interdisciplinary work at the intersection of security, privacy, HCI, ethics, and law using a combination of computational and social science research methods. His work explores people’s concerns about using AI systems, what values those systems should embody, and how they can better meet the needs of the people who use them. He has worked with a wide range of public sector and industry partners including Microsoft, BRE Group, and the Information Commissioner’s Office.