AI Development Workspaces - AI Security Technique
AI Security TechniqueDeveloping and staging AI attacks often requires expensive compute resources. Adversaries may need access to one or many GPUs in order to develop an attack. They may try to anonymously use free resources such as Google Colaboratory, or cloud resources such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud as an efficient way to stand up temporary resources to conduct operations. Multiple workspaces may be used to avoid detection.
Overview
A source-backed snapshot of this AI security technique.
Technique details
Identifiers, maturity, and source taxonomy for this technique.
- ATLAS ID
- AML.T0008.000
- Maturity
- demonstrated
- Priority score
- 30
Attack flow
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Impact
Why this technique may deserve attention in the current dataset.
- Evidence leveldemonstrated
- Mapped defenses0 ATLAS mitigation records
- Public examples1 linked case study records
- Research risks0 related MIT AI Risk records above the confidence threshold
- Vulnerabilities0 linked CVE records
Mitigations
Defenses that may help against this attack.
Case studies
Examples from public reports and exercises.
GPT-2 Model Replication
OpenAI built GPT-2, a language model capable of generating high quality text samples. Over concerns that GPT-2 could be used for malicious purposes such as impersonating others, or generating misleading news articles, fake social media content, or spam, OpenAI adopted a tiered release schedule. They initially released a smaller, less powerful version of GPT-2 along with a technical description of the approach, but held back the full trained model.
Before the full model was released by OpenAI, researchers at Brown University successfully replicated the model using information released by OpenAI and open source ML artifacts. This demonstrates that a bad actor with sufficient technical skill and compute resources could have replicated GPT-2 and used it for harmful goals before the AI Security community is prepared.
Source evidence
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