College of IST Research Assistant in Securing Autonomous AI Agents w Dr Liu
University Park, IL - USA
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JOB DESCRIPTION AND POSITION REQUIREMENTS
The College of IST is seeking applicants for part-time job of Research Assistant in Securing Autonomous AI Agents. The summer research assistant will have expertise in the intersection of Information Flow Control (IFC) autonomous AI agents (e.g. OpenClaw) and LLMs (Large Language Models). In particular the researcher will work on identifying and addressing the limitations of the existing security measures for autonomous AI agents. Since such agentic AI systems utilize LLMs the researcher will pay close attention to analyzing the interactions between AI agents and LLMs
Job duties to include:
- Identify and address the limitations of the existing security measures for autonomous AI agents.
- Develop a new IFC framework
- Conduct experiments to validate the new IFC framework.
- Write a technical report.
Requirements qualifications and/or competencies:
- Adequate experience in both IFC and agentic AI systems
Compensation:
The starting rate for this job is $16 hour.
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