What the 2023 ACM China Turing Conference Revealed About AI‑Driven Security Challenges

ACM China Turing Conference 2023 Overview

The ACM China Turing Conference was held in Wuhan from July 28‑30, 2023 under the theme “General Intelligence, Human‑Machine Symbiosis.” The event attracted Turing Award laureates, academicians, and scholars worldwide to share the latest advances and future directions in computing.

ACM TURC‑OPPO Security Summit Highlights

On the afternoon of July 30, the second ACM TURC‑OPPO Security Summit took place with the theme “AI Empowers Security, Data Leads the Future.” The forum, hosted by Prof. Ling Zhen (Southeast University), featured talks from Prof. Xue Kaiping (USTC), Prof. Wang Haoyu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Assoc. Prof. Jiang Yu (Tsinghua University), OPPO ColorOS Security Director Wang Anyu, and OPPO Research senior researcher Meng Dan.

ChatGPT and AI‑Powered Security (Wang Anyu)

Wang Anyu explained that the popularity of ChatGPT puts AI security and privacy back in the spotlight. Large language models can serve as powerful tools for network defense—such as AI‑based text and code vulnerability detection, security knowledge retrieval, threat‑intelligence collection, and analysis assistants—while also introducing risks like adversarial attacks, privacy leakage, bias, and misuse. He introduced OPPO’s “Trusted AI” whitepaper, which outlines the current state and challenges of trustworthy AI security and privacy technologies.

Blacktooth: Silently Breaking Bluetooth Defenses (Xue Kaiping)

Prof. Xue Kaiping presented “Blacktooth: Silently Breaking Bluetooth Defense Mechanisms,” analyzing multiple Bluetooth protocol vulnerabilities and demonstrating how Blacktooth exploits them. The work received a Best Paper nomination at ACM CCS 2022 and has sparked broad interest in the security community.

Database Software Fuzz Testing (Jiang Yu)

Assc. Prof. Jiang Yu discussed “Database Software Fuzz Testing,” focusing on automated, grammar‑agnostic fuzzing techniques for databases. He showcased the effectiveness of the approach in uncovering diverse database defects and outlined future plans to build a large‑scale fuzz testing cluster and an open unknown‑vulnerability database.

LLM‑Enhanced Mobile Terminal Security (Wang Haoyu)

Prof. Wang Haoyu examined security challenges for mobile intelligent terminals in the era of large language models. He described new attack surfaces introduced by LLMs and presented static, dynamic, and intent‑based analysis methods enhanced by LLMs. He advocated for the evolution toward “3H” LLMs—Honest, Harmless, Helpful—and urged continuous attention to supply‑chain security within the LLM ecosystem.

Proactive Privacy Computing (Meng Dan)

OPPO Research senior researcher Meng Dan introduced proactive privacy computing as a viable solution for emerging pervasive‑service privacy challenges. From an end‑cloud collaborative perspective, she described frontier technologies, OPPO’s initial explorations, and a strategy that combines end‑cloud and cloud‑cloud privacy‑enhancing techniques to ensure lawful data usage, user‑perceived control, risk analysis, and compliance auditing throughout the data lifecycle.

Roundtable on AI‑Enabled Security (Lin Feng)

In a roundtable chaired by Prof. Lin Feng (Zhejiang University), participants discussed hot topics such as endpoint, system, application, and AI security. They offered suggestions on the technical capabilities OPPO should develop to meet future challenges and opportunities, emphasizing the mission of safeguarding intelligent terminals and user data.

Closing Remarks (Liu Yunhuai)

ACM China Council Vice‑Chair and Peking University Professor Liu Yunhuai concluded the forum, expressing hope for deeper cooperation between ACM and OPPO across multiple future directions.