Privacy Enhancing Technologies for the AI Era

While machine learning has enabled innovative services, privacy issues emerge to be serious concerns. People become curious about big companies who gather personal data for misguided purposes. People become uncomforable when asked to provide personal data to use services, as the powerful AI behind the services may try to manipulate their lives. Privacy enhancing technologies are needed to remove the doubts and elevate the AI without violating personal privacy. In this talk, I would also like to argue that privacy is critical to the industry and should be viewed differently from security. Our societies in Taiwan have not paid enough attention to privacy enhancing technologies, but there is still time to catch up and seize the golden opportunities.