Security News
With the proliferation of generative AI in the business world today, it's critical that organizations understand where AI applications are drawing their data from and who has access to it. I spoke with Moe Tanabian, chief product officer at industrial software company Cognite and former Microsoft Azure global vice president, about acquiring trustworthy data, AI hallucinations and the future of AI. The following is a transcript of my interview with Tanabian.
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic have announced the formation of the Frontier Model Forum. The goal of the Frontier Model Forum is to have member companies contribute technical and operational advice to develop a public library of solutions to support industry best practices and standards.
Chinese made AI-enabled products should spark similar concerns to Middle Kingdom sourced 5G equipment and therefore be regulated, said think tank Australian Strategic Policy Institute on Thursday. In a report, titled "De-risking Authoritarian AI," ASPI's Simeon Gilding argued that AI-enabled products present perhaps an even greater risk than 5G which is also more difficult to mitigate.
World of Warcraft players wrote about a fictional game element, "Glorbo," on a subreddit for the game, trying to entice an AI bot to write an article about it. The article was left online for a while but has finally been taken down.
Following the footsteps of WormGPT, threat actors are advertising yet another cybercrime generative artificial intelligence tool dubbed FraudGPT on various dark web marketplaces and Telegram channels."This is an AI bot, exclusively targeted for offensive purposes, such as crafting spear phishing emails, creating cracking tools, carding, etc.," Netenrich security researcher Rakesh Krishnan said in a report published Tuesday.
The details are scant-the article is based on a "Heavily redacted" contract-but the New York subway authority is using an "AI system" to detect people who don't pay the subway fare. Joana Flores, an MTA spokesperson, said the AI system doesn't flag fare evaders to New York police, but she declined to comment on whether that policy could change.
74% of respondents using generative AI say it's already improving their ability to increase revenue, and the average daily time savings from generative AI is 33%-the equivalent of 2.5 hours every workday or 13 hours each workweek. Companies' top concern with not using generative AI is falling behind competitors-but hurdles like security concerns, lack of a cohesive AI strategy, and lack of internal policies to govern generative AI prevent adoption.
In March, the U.K. government released a white paper promoting the country as a place to "Turbocharge growth" in AI. According to the white paper, 500,000 people in the U.K. are employed in the AI industry, and AI contributed £3.7 billion to the national economy in 2022. In response, on July 18, the independent research body Ada Lovelace Institute, in a lengthy report, called for a more "Robust domestic policy" in order to regulate AI through legislation that clarifies and organizes the U.K.'s effort to promote AI as an industry.
Threat actors are already engaging in rigorous discussions of how language models can be used for everything from identifying 0-day exploits to craft spear-phishing emails. Threat exposure management firm Flare has identified more than 200,000 OpenAI credentials currently being sold on the dark web in the form of stealer logs.
Seven US artificial intelligence giants - Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI - have publicly committed to "Help move toward safe, secure, and transparent development of AI technology." Test the security of their AI systems before launch Share knowledge about AI risk management best practices among themselves and with the government.