Searching

Nearly two days after his teenage daughter has gone missing, David Kim (John Cho) and the detectives assigned to the case have no leads to her disappearance. Desperate to find his child, David turns to the one place that no has looked into yet: her laptop. A hyper-modern thriller, set almost entirely on computer screens and smartphones, Searching dives deep into the data that is seemingly private within digital technologies.

This screening will be preceded by a presentation from Prasad Calyam, Curators' Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Missouri. Dr. Calyam's presentation, "Artificial Intelligence in Cybersecurity: Friend or Foe?, will provide a background on how AI without guardrails used for decision making as a financial advisor, psychotherapist or cybersecurity analyst can become a threat vector (as a “foe”) and can be a source of harmful advice. However, when designed with a safety layer, AI tools can be used to create human-AI teaming (as a “friend”) that can provide intelligent decision making abilities to improve the practice of providing advice on wealth management, or becoming a support system for mental health. The presentation will conclude with details on the potential to use new AI-based methods being developed to protect the modern smart grid systems against sophisticated cyber attacks by fusing knowledge graphs of electric grids, cybersecurity, and expert social networks.