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https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/hacker-vs-machine-at-def-con-thousands-of-security-researchers-vie-to-outsmart-ai-in-las-vegas-4.jpg?resize=1015,675 1015w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/hacker-vs-machine-at-def-con-thousands-of-security-researchers-vie-to-outsmart-ai-in-las-vegas-4.jpg?resize=1267,843 1267w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1015px) 100vw, 1015px\"><figcaption> Photo by Olivier Morin\/AFP\/Getty Images <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"single-article__content\">\n<div class=\"single-article__content-inner has-drop-cap\"> <html readability=\"71.206196581197\"><body readability=\"143.55648535565\"><\/p>\n<p>Over the next four days, more than 3,000 hackers will descend upon a conference hall at DEF CON and try to break into leading generative artificial intelligence systems. Attendees of the annual hacking conference in Las Vegas will have 50 minutes each at one of 156 laptops to deceive, probe and steal information from AI chatbots, in the largest-ever public exercise aimed at discovering the security weaknesses of large language models. <\/p>\n<p>At a time when interest in deploying generative AI is skyrocketing and the vulnerabilities of these systems are only beginning to be understood, <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/def-con-red-teaming-ai\/\">the red-teaming exercise at DEF CON\u2019s AI Village<\/a> aims to enlist the talents of America\u2019s leading hackers to discover security flaws and biases encoded in large language models to better understand how they might harm society. <\/p>\n<p>The popularity of LLMs and the viral phenomenon of ChatGPT has caused a boom in the AI industry, putting AI tools in the hands of consumers and hackers alike. Hackers have already found ways to circumvent their security controls, and prompt injections \u2014 instructions that cause LLMs to ignore their guardrails \u2014 targeting mainstream models have received widespread attention. But the organizers of the red-team event hope that the exercise will allow participants to examine the potential harms and vulnerabilities of generative AI more broadly. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of the harmful things that will occur will happen in the everyday use of large language models,\u201d said Rumman Chowdhury, an AI ethicist and researcher and one of the organizers of the events. What Chowdhury refers to as \u201cembedded harms\u201d can include disinformation, racial bias, inconsistent responses and the use of everyday language to make the model say something it shouldn\u2019t. <\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Allowing hackers to poke and prod at the AI systems of leading labs \u2014 including Anthropic, Google, Hugging Face, Microsoft, Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI and Stability AI \u2014 in an open setting \u201cdemonstrates that it\u2019s possible to create AI governance solutions that are independent, inclusive and informed by but not beholden to AI companies,\u201d Chowdhury said at a media briefing this week with the organizers of the event. <\/p>\n<p>Broadening the community of people involved in AI security is more important than ever, the event\u2019s organizers argue, because AI policy is being written while key scientific questions remain unanswered. \u201cCongress <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democrats.senate.gov\/news\/press-releases\/majority-leader-schumer-delivers-remarks-to-launch-safe-innovation-framework-for-artificial-intelligence-at-csis\">is grappling with AI governance<\/a> and they\u2019re searching for guidance,\u201d said Kellee Wicker, the director of the Science and Technology Innovation Program at the Wilson Center, a Washington think tank. As AI policy is being written, \u201cwider inclusion of stakeholders in these governance discussions is absolutely essential,\u201d Wicker argues, adding that the red-team event is a chance to diversify \u201cboth who\u2019s talking about AI security and who is directly involved with AI security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Participants in the event will sit down at a laptop, be randomly assigned a model from one of the participating firms and provided with a list of challenges from which they can choose. There are five categories of challenges \u2014 prompt hacking, security, information integrity, internal consistency and societal harm \u2014 and participants will submit any problematic material to judges for grading.<\/p>\n<p>The winners of the event are expected to be announced Sunday at the conclusion of the conference, but the full result of the red-teaming exercise are not expected to be released until February. <\/p>\n<p>Policymakers have seized on red-teaming as a key tool in better understanding AI systems, and a recent set of voluntary security commitments from leading AI companies secured by the White House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2023\/07\/21\/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-secures-voluntary-commitments-from-leading-artificial-intelligence-companies-to-manage-the-risks-posed-by-ai\/\">included a pledge<\/a> to subject their products to external security testing. But even as AI models are being deployed in the wild, it\u2019s not clear that the discipline of AI safety is sufficiently mature and has the tools to evaluate the risks posed by large language models whose internal workings scientists are often at a loss to explain. <\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cEvaluating the capability and safety characteristics of LLMs is really complex, and it\u2019s sort of an open area of scientific inquiry,\u201d Michael Sellitto, a policy executive at Anthropic, said during this week\u2019s briefing. Inviting a huge number of hackers to attack models from his company and others is a chance to identify \u201careas in the risk surface that we maybe haven\u2019t touched yet,\u201d Sellitto added.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2209.07858.pdf\">a paper released last year<\/a>, researchers at Anthropic described the results of an internal red-teaming exercise involving 324 crowd-sourced workers recruited to prompt an AI assistant into saying harmful things. The researchers found that larger models trained via human feedback to be more harmless were generally more difficult to red-team. Having been trained to have stronger guardrails, Anthropic\u2019s researchers found it more difficult to prompt the models to engage in harmful behavior, but the firm noted that its data was limited and the approach expensive. <\/p>\n<p>The paper notes that a minority of prolific red-teamers generated most of the data in the set, with about 80% of attacks coming from about 50 of the workers. Opening models to attack at DEF CON will provide a relatively inexpensive, larger data set from a broader, potentially more expert group of red-teamers. <\/p>\n<p>Chris Rohlf, a security engineer at Meta, said that recruiting a larger group of workers with diverse perspectives to red-team AI systems is \u201csomething that\u2019s hard to recreate internally\u201d or by \u201chiring third-party experts.\u201d By opening Meta\u2019s AI models to attack at DEF CON, Rohlf said he hopes it will help \u201cus find more issues, which is going to lead us to more robust and resilient models in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carrying out a generative AI red teaming event at a conference like DEF CON also represents a melding of disciplines \u2014 between cybersecurity and AI safety.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re bringing ideas from security, like using a capture-the-flag system that has been used in many, many security competitions to machine learning ethics and machine learning safety,\u201d said Sven Catell, who founded the DEF CON AI Village. These aspects of AI safety don\u2019t fit neatly within the cybersecurity discipline, which is principally concerned about security vulnerabilities in code and hardware. \u201cBut security is about managing risk,\u201d Catell said, and that means the security community should work to address the risk of rapidly proliferating AI.<\/p>\n<p>As AI developers place greater focus on security, bringing together these disciplines faces significant hurdles, but the hope of this weekend\u2019s red-team exercise is that the hard-fought lessons from trying \u2014 and failing to secure \u2014 computer systems in recent decades might applied to AI systems at an early enough stage to mitigate major harms to society. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is this sort of space of AI and data science and security \u2014 and they\u2019re not strictly the same,\u201d Daniel Rohrer, NVIDIA\u2019s vice president of product security architecture and research, told CyberScoop in an interview. \u201cMerging those disciplines, I think is really important.\u201d Over the course of the past 30 years, the computer security profession has learned a great deal about how to secure systems, and \u201ca lot of those can be applied and implemented slightly differently in AI contexts,\u201d Rohrer said. <\/p>\n<p><\/body> <\/p>\n<footer class=\"single-article__footer\">\n<div class=\"single-article__tags-container\">\n<h4 class=\"single-article__tags-title\">In This Story<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<p> <\/html><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"single-article__ads js-single-article-sidebar\">\n<div class=\"ad ad--sidebar js-single-article-sidebar-5 ad--rightrail_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad ad--sidebar js-single-article-sidebar-4 ad--rightrail_2 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad ad--sidebar js-single-article-sidebar-3 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Privacy experts say beware. <\/a> <\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-item__byline\"> <span class=\"post-item__author\"> <span>By <\/span> <a class=\"post-item__author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/author\/tonya-riley\/\"> Tonya Riley <\/a> <\/span> <\/div>\n<p> <\/header>\n<p> <\/article>\n<article class=\"post-item post-item--popular-stories-cards \">\n<figure class=\"post-item__thumbnail\"> <a class=\"post-item__thumbnail-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/easterly-warning-weapons-artificial-intelligence-chatgpt\/\" tabindex=\"-1\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"252\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/hacker-vs-machine-at-def-con-thousands-of-security-researchers-vie-to-outsmart-ai-in-las-vegas-3.jpg?resize=252%2C168&ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-ratio-16-9-sm size-ratio-16-9-sm wp-post-image\" alt decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/hacker-vs-machine-at-def-con-thousands-of-security-researchers-vie-to-outsmart-ai-in-las-vegas-7.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/hacker-vs-machine-at-def-con-thousands-of-security-researchers-vie-to-outsmart-ai-in-las-vegas-7.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/hacker-vs-machine-at-def-con-thousands-of-security-researchers-vie-to-outsmart-ai-in-las-vegas-7.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/hacker-vs-machine-at-def-con-thousands-of-security-researchers-vie-to-outsmart-ai-in-las-vegas-7.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/hacker-vs-machine-at-def-con-thousands-of-security-researchers-vie-to-outsmart-ai-in-las-vegas-7.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/hacker-vs-machine-at-def-con-thousands-of-security-researchers-vie-to-outsmart-ai-in-las-vegas-7.jpg?resize=600,400 600w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/hacker-vs-machine-at-def-con-thousands-of-security-researchers-vie-to-outsmart-ai-in-las-vegas-7.jpg?resize=252,168 252w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/hacker-vs-machine-at-def-con-thousands-of-security-researchers-vie-to-outsmart-ai-in-las-vegas-7.jpg?resize=506,337 506w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/hacker-vs-machine-at-def-con-thousands-of-security-researchers-vie-to-outsmart-ai-in-las-vegas-7.jpg?resize=1013,675 1013w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/hacker-vs-machine-at-def-con-thousands-of-security-researchers-vie-to-outsmart-ai-in-las-vegas-7.jpg?resize=1265,843 1265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\"> <\/a><figcaption class=\"screen-reader-text\"> CISA Director Jen Easterly spoke at the CrowdStrike Government Summit on April 11. 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