Making AI Possible
Making AI Possible
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Welcome to the Making AI Possible Podcast—your new monthly deep dive into the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and how they’re shaping the world around us. Produced at Caltech in Pasadena, California, this series features in-depth conversations with the people driving AI innovation forward.
This podcast series features the latest AI advancements with some of the brightest minds in the field, such as groundbreaking research from AI industry leaders, labs here on campus, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which Caltech manages for NASA. Discover how cutting-edge research is being applied to transform and streamline healthcare, energy, manufacturing, and finance.
Each episode explores the "how" behind AI breakthroughs and the "why" that drives innovation—from lab to enterprise. Whether you're a technologist, strategist, or decision-maker, Making AI Possible offers rare insight into how advanced AI systems are built, governed, and applied in the real world. Tune in to discover how the latest research becomes transformative technology.
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The podcast covers a range of topics centered around artificial intelligence, including its applications in healthcare, energy, manufacturing, and finance. For instance, episodes explore how AI innovations from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory are applied in real-world contexts, and discussions around the transformation of decision-making processes in organizations through advanced AI systems.
Welcome to the Making AI Possible Podcast—your new monthly deep dive into the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and how they’re shaping the world around us. Produced at Caltech in Pasadena, California, this series features in-depth conversations with the people driving AI innovation forward.
This podcast series features the latest AI advancements with some of the brightest minds in the field, such as groundbreaking research from AI industry leaders, labs here on campus, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which Caltech manages for NASA. Discover how cutting-edge research is being applied to transform and streamline healthcare, energy, manufacturing, and finance.
Each episode explores the “how” behind AI breakthroughs and the “why” that drives innovation—from lab to enterprise. Whether you’re a technologist, strategist, or decision-maker, Making AI Possible offers rare insight into how advanced AI systems are built, governed, and applied in the real world. Tune in to discover how the latest research becomes transformative technology.
We’ll talk about the questions that every leader should be asking right now:
- Hacker vs. Cybercriminal: When AI joins the fight, do we face a new category? An AI Cyberhacker, or something even more autonomous?
- Securing the Foundations of AI: Why data integrity and trust are the real first lines of defense for both traditional and LLM-based systems.
- The Hidden Infrastructure: Protecting AI’s compute backbone from invisible threats.
- Adversarial AI: The rise of offensive machine learning, and what happens when the model becomes the weapon.
- The Human Factor: Building a security-first AI culture that does not rely on a few experts, but everyone.
- The future of responsible AI depends on one thing: treating cybersecurity not as a barrier, but as an enabler
Ismael Montañez “Ish” is a Cybersecurity Engineer, Ethical Hacker, and Purple Team Specialist with over six years of experience protecting AI-driven systems and cloud environments. He holds two bachelor’s degrees in Cyber Forensics with Network Security and Digital Media, blending technical precision with creative problem solving to design resilient security architectures. Before entering the private sector, Ish served as a Military Intelligence Sergeant, managing classified intelligence operations and developing expertise in threat analysis and secure information handling. He also spent four years in the financial industry, conducting IT and Linux forensics to safeguard critical data and digital assets. Ismael currently works at a leading artificial intelligence company, where he focuses on cybersecurity engineering, cloud security and engineering, AI security and oversight, and proactive defense strategies. His mission is to bridge the gap between human ingenuity and machine intelligence ensuring that innovation in AI remains secure, ethical, and resilient. ♦
As Caltech CTME’s Affiliate Director of AI Programs, Nicholas Beaudoin intersects strategic program development with hands-on curriculum design, positioning AI/ML education programs at the forefront of technological transformation. Leading the AI programs at Caltech’s Center for Technology & Management Education, Nicholas’ focus is on delivering impactful learning experiences tailored to a diverse clientele, including private and public sectors, as well as government and non-profit organizations. ♦
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