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How the AI Village Works

The AI Village is a community where people learn AI through hands-on projects, cohorts, and workshops. It uses a semester-based curriculum from basics to advanced topics, emphasizing practical learning, mentorship, and open-source collaboration.

Background

- The **AI Village** is a community-run educational space at major hacking conferences (DEF CON, BSides) where attendees learn how AI/ML systems work from a security perspective — and how to break them. - It was founded by **Sven Cattell** (a data scientist and former NSA mathematician) in 2017, originally to teach "machine learning for hackers" at DEF CON. - The Village is volunteer-run and non-commercial; everything is hands-on, with workshops, CTF (Capture The Flag) challenges, and talks focused on adversarial ML, model security, and AI safety. - Key context: Most AI security discourse happens in corporate or academic settings; the Village brings it to the hacker community, emphasizing practical red-teaming skills and open knowledge-sharing rather than vendor pitches.

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