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Practical AI Security
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Practical AI Security

by Harriet Farlow
June 2026
Intermediate
392 pages
11h 24m
English
No Starch Press
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1WHAT IS AI?

A robot wearing a cape stands with its arms crossed in front of the curved surface of a planet, with other planets in space in the background.

Technologies that use AI are facing new kinds of attacks. In recent years, criminals have leaked records and stolen money from the Shanghai and California tax departments by deceiving their facial recognition authentication models. They’ve poisoned malware classifiers provided by McAfee and Cylance by manipulating the data submitted to them. And incident repositories have documented hundreds of other AI attacks.

In this chapter, we’ll start with the basics of how machines can learn by themselves, a concept that underpins every discussion that follows. We’ll use code and first-principles logic to show not only how machines learn ...

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