Vice Rector Zhou Wanlei delivers keynote on ethical and secured LLM development at International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology

 

The 21st International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology was recently held in Xi’an. Vice Rector Zhou Wanlei of City University of Macau (CityU) was invited and delivered a keynote speech titled “Research on Key Technologies of Large Models Driven by Ethics and Security”. The conference was jointly organized by State Key Laboratory of Integrated Services Networks at Xidian University and the State Key Laboratory of Cyberspace Security Defense at the Institute of Information Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

 

The event brought together experts and scholars from numerous universities and research institutions, including Columbia University (USA), Lancaster University (UK), University of Wollongong (Australia), Singapore Management University, University of Aizu (Japan), Tsinghua University, National University of Defense Technology, Renmin University of China, Institute of Information Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xidian University, Jinan University, and Wuhan University.

In his speech, Zhou Wanlei emphasized that large artificial intelligence (AI) models represent a major technological breakthrough in the field and have become a core driving force of transformation in the tech industry and innovation within the technological ecosystem. However, he pointed out that if the development and application of these models fail to address safety effectively and ethical considerations, absence in either aspect could severely limit their practical applications and even lead to violations of laws and regulations. Although building secure, trustworthy, and ethically aligned large models has become a shared goal of both academia and industry, Vice Rector Zhou noted that significant challenges remain in achieving this objective.

 

Vice Rector Zhou further stated that the research team at CityU has been conducting systematic attempts to align with both ethical constraints and security requirements, focusing on evaluation mechanisms for large models and the balance between optimization and safety verification. He highlighted their key breakthroughs as such as the quantitative assessment of ethics and security, game theory-based techniques for balancing ethical and safety concerns, and relevant provable safety theories and verification methods.

 

The conference called for high-quality academic papers worldwide, focusing on cutting-edge research in information security, cryptography, and their applications. Accepted papers after the review process will be formally published by Springer and included in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

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