Secure AI Weekly

Reinforcement learning models are prone to membership inference attacks TechTalks, August 15, 2022 Machine learning is becoming part of most of applications we use every day with increasing attention being paid to identifying and mitigating threats to the security and privacy of machine learning models. Yet some areas of machine ...

AI Auditing: The Uncharted Waters of AI Research IEAI, August 2022 What is an audit for artificial intelligence systems? An audit is a procedure that allows you to get a complete overview of the current and past performance of an AI system. Why is it needed? Audit for AI systems ...

Large Language AI Models Have Real Security Benefits DarkReading, August 3, 2022 We usually don’t cover how AI is helping in security but this one is curious and optimistic. The third version of the Generative Pre-trained Transformer, better known as GPT-3, is a large neural network built from wide training ...

UT Austin, MITRE Partnership Scales Up Investment in Ethical AI Unite.ai, 21 July 2022 To accelerate innovative ethical artificial intelligence research, the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) and MITRE Corporation, a non-profit organization dedicated to “solving problems for a safer world”, have entered into a partnership. Along with ...

New adversarial mask designs evade facial recognition systems BiometricUpdate, July 15, 2022 Israeli researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Tel Aviv University have found that cloth face masks with adversarial patterns that cover the nose and mouth can dodge facial recognition systems in at least 96% cases. Facial ...

Adversarial machine learning and artificial intelligence are a concern in the information security community. Algorithm Claims to Predict Crime in US Cities Before It Happens Bloomberg, June 30, 2022 (Updated on July 4, 2022) A study published in Nature Human Behavior has found that a new computer algorithm that claims ...

Concerns about the security of AI systems are on the rise GitHub Copilot works so well because it steals open-source code and strips credit TheNextWeb, July 1, 2022 Recently, the real incident involving Model Extraction attack on AI occurred. Critical data of the training dataset was extracted from the trained ...

Machine Learning models not as secure and safe as it might seem at first glance Microsoft’s framework for building AI systems responsibly Microsoft, June 21, 2022 AI is increasingly seeping into all areas of human lives. So, it is essential to ensure that AI systems and their structure are both ...