Physicist/Engineer turned Policy Analyst separating fact from fiction in fields like Cyber, AI, Drones, Nanotech, etc. Opinions are mine; RT's ≠ endorsements.
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Hey all, big-compute and big-AI get a lot of airtime but it's also worth spending a minute to think about when AI is forced to be small and what that implies for reliability and so forth. @KyauMill21 @CSETGeorgetown
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New AI & international security paper just dropped. 🔥
Let's take a look at how confidence-building measures can mitigate some of the international security risks associated with foundation models.
arxiv.org/abs/2308.00862
New paper just out that I got to watch take shape. One encouraging point that stuck out to me was that there is still room to improve safety across many dimensions; looks like we don't usually have to trade off one type of safe for another yet.
arxiv.org/pdf/2307.10586.pdf
Today, the White House announced voluntary commitments about safety and security from seven major AI companies. John Bansemer and I recently wrote a short blog post about what that might look like. Might be worth a gander.
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✨New Policy Brief✨
CSET's @AndrewJLohn & Krystal Jackson, in partnership with the @turinginst, investigate the future of cybersecurity: Autonomous Cyber Defense Agents. Learn more in their new report ⬇️ cset.georgetown.edu/publicat…
If you're in the 'Compute for AI' world this is worth a quick look. I, for one, was surprised by some of the main results.
📊📉New Data Brief📈📊
How important is computing hardware to AI progress, compared to other factors like talent and data? New survey research from CSET's @mrmusser, Rebecca Gelles, Ronnie Kinoshita, Catherine Aiken, and @AndrewJLohn provides answers 👇 cset.georgetown.edu/publicat…
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✨New Report✨
AI systems are being rapidly deployed, but many have vulnerabilities that are hard to study + mitigate. In our report produced w/ @StanfordCyber, 17 coauthors from policy research, law, industry + government propose steps to reduce risks: cset.georgetown.edu/publicat…
Who likes tons of data compiled into an easy-to-use and free interface? Want to do bibliometrics or understand the semiconductor supply chain or know which country is doing what in AI? Visit eto.tech
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In a world where some hackers are making millions of dollars at a time, there’s also the question of who would turn them in at all. That said, it’s not unheard of for hackers to turn on each other, CSET's @AndrewJLohn told @washingtonpost's @timstarks. washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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✨New issue brief✨
As the United States faces a growing number of threats in the cyber domain, high school cybersecurity competitions can help to train the next generation of domestic cyber talent, write Kayla Goode, @ali_craw, and Christopher Back ⬇️: cset.georgetown.edu/publicat…
Wow! Way to go RAND. I can't think of a better person for this role than Jason (and I had been trying).
We’re thrilled to announce that Jason Matheny has been selected as our new president and CEO. He is an economist, technologist, highly regarded national security expert, and longtime civil servant. Welcome, Jason! bit.ly/3MrOqsN
Some best practices to consider for deploying large language models from @OpenAI, @CohereAI, and @AI21Labs. Worth a look if you're sending them out into the world.
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🎉New Policy Brief🎉
Managing vulnerabilities in machine learning is going to require a few changes. A new brief by @andrewjlohn and Wyatt Hoffman discusses a few of those along with what to expect for the future of cybersecurity. cset.georgetown.edu/publicat…
I think our new one is a fun and short read.
On its face it's obvious that such a steep exponential can't go forever but it's not so obvious when it might stop or why.
🚨New Issue Brief🚨
Computing power is a core driver of modern #AI progress, but how much longer can computing resources keep growing?
In this issue brief, @AndrewJLohn and @mrmusser argue that this growth might slow down sooner than you think. cset.georgetown.edu/publicat…
Big news for CSET and for the broader AI policy world!
📣 News Release! 📣
CSET is happy to announce an increase in grant funding, bringing our total funds to more than $100 million, to continue our work at the intersection of emerging tech and security.
cset.georgetown.edu/article/…
We usually envision AI conflict, crisis, and escalation as being fast but what counts as fast?
Apples and Oranges but:
State Dept figures Iran nuclear breakout time is 3 months.
Wall clock to train a 1T-parameter language model is also 3 months.
Big media day for me. Was on @NPR's @Marketplace and in @WIRED!
marketplace.org/2021/07/19/w…
wired.com/story/pentagon-bol…
It's not an adversarial example, the library actually changes the image to a triceratops. Far worse in some ways.
What would make a machine learning library turn a view of Georgetown University into a triceratops before classifying? @AndrewJLohn unpacks this and other supply chain threats in his latest CSET research.
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✨ New Report!✨
Machine learning depends upon a foundation that others have built, but what happens if the bricks at the bottom are not to be trusted? In a new CSET report, @AndrewJLohn discusses risks to the machine learning supply chain. cset.georgetown.edu/publicat…