AI Testing and Evaluation: Learnings from cybersecurity
CIARAN MARTIN: Well, thanks so much for inviting me. It’s great to be here.
SULLIVAN: Ciaran, before we get into some regulatory specifics, it’d be great to hear a little bit more about your origin story, and just take us to that day—who tapped you on the shoulder and said, “Ciaran, we need you to run a national cyber center! Do you fancy building one?”
MARTIN: You could argue that I owe my job to Edward Snowden. Not an obvious thing to say. So the National Cyber Security Centre, which didn’t exist at the time—I was invited to join the British government’s cybersecurity effort in a leadership role—is now a subset of GCHQ. That’s the digital intelligence agency. The equivalent in the US obviously is the NSA [National Security