This Feb 23, 2019, photo shows the inside of a computer. The Biden administration will offer rewards up to $10 million for information leading to the identification of foreign state-sanctioned malicious cyber activity against critical U.S. infrastructure, including ransomware attacks. …Some of the nation’s top artificial intelligence labs have pitiful security measures in place to protect them from espionage, leaving potentially dangerous AI models exposed to thieves and spies, according to U.S.
“In general, what you will find is security practices that I think it’s fair to say security professionals would be really concerned about if they saw them,” Jeremie Harris, Gladstone AI CEO, said. “For example, just to give one, folks taking their laptops out down the street to the nearest Starbucks and just hacking away on them.”
Gladstone AI learned of individuals running experiments with AI models on laptops without proper supervision, which could fuel fears that experimenters may eventually lose the ability to restrain the AI from doing damage. The security official told the AI worker that the lab had no concern about Chinese theft of the lab’s work because the lab had not seen any models emerge in China that resembled their work, according to Edouard Harris.
The State Department told The Washington Times its efforts to understand AI research and development are ongoing, it is working to mitigate harm, and Gladstone AI’s assessment does not explicitly represent the views of the U.S. government.