Women in AI: Heidy Khlaaf, safety engineering director at Trail of Bits

A TechCrunch interview with Heidy Khlaaf, engineering director at Trail of Bits, covers her path into AI, critiques of current AI safety practices, the risks and unreliability of AI systems, and the need for verifiable assurance and independent audits and regulation; she stresses skepticism of overhyped claims, urges AI to augment rather than replace humans, highlights persistent gender inequities in tech, and calls on investors to fund independent auditing capacity.