description: "A security analysis of steganographic prompt injection and data poisoning risks in generative design systems — inspired by multi-agent engineering AI research at Skoltech."
"The engineer is no longer inside the system, but works above the system, setting high-level goals and constraints, while the AI's cognitive architecture develops the steps needed to achieve these goals."
— Prof. Evgeny Burnaev, Director of the Skoltech AI Center
I recently watched a presentation by Prof. Evgeny Burnaev of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) — a leading Russian research university — where he demonstrated a multi-agent engineering AI platform designed to assist architects and structural engineers. The system reads legacy paper blueprints, interprets building codes, vectorizes old drawings, and proposes optimized structural solutions using a cascade of large multimodal models and knowledge graphs. The YouTube recording of this talk is available here: youtube.com/watch?v=BE6Kj9IOsJk.
As a security professional, I found the technology breathtaking — and terrifying.
