Dawn Song

“We want to innovate. We want to actually make the world a better place. But we can only do that if we can ensure the safety and security of the AI systems we are building and deploying.”

“With secure multi-party computation, any hacker would need to simultaneously compromise many different entities at once to steal the data,”

“It’s all about a responsible data economy,”

“I loved that physics is the language of nature,”

“It was a really early time in the field, and the community was very small, but I liked the interdisciplinary nature of the field of computer security,”

“I’m a very curiosity-driven person who loves to explore uncharted domains,”

“How can we help users maintain control of their data and at the same time let the data be used in a privacy-preserving way that is for the betterment of both society and individuals?”

“This is the kind of dataset, on hundreds of thousands of people, that you really don’t want to become compromised,”

“Privacy is absolutely missing and is absolutely essential. With Oasis’ new technology of Sapphire, this confidential EVM, we really hope that this can be a gamechanger for that.”

“The whole point of blockchain in a permissionless setting is to have a distributed protocol and entities coming together to reach consensus,”

“There is a real need in the real world. We are at an inflection point. The Internet has changed everybody's life -- for the most part for the better -- but we face many challenges, particularly around the question of who has control of data and how data should be utilised,”

“Without enforcement of [data property rights], anyone can take data and derive value from it without attributing value back to the original owners,”