Comment by bradleybuda
6 days ago
“Completely air-gapping this infrastructure—that is, disconnecting it entirely from external networks—isn’t currently feasible, since we need external connections in order to run and monitor experiments”
6 days ago
“Completely air-gapping this infrastructure—that is, disconnecting it entirely from external networks—isn’t currently feasible, since we need external connections in order to run and monitor experiments”
It's incredible how much incompetence and muddled thinking is baked into their statements. Governments everywhere run fully air-gapped networks: staff have to turn up at an office, be identified to get access, and transfers in and out are carefully vetted. Communication between sites is via network encryptors with no control plane connection on the black or red side.
If they wanted to, they would.
Yes, but artifacts created in these air-gapped networks are expected to stay there. This is not true for AI lab models, who would get access to the internet once live.
That is not the case, a key purpose for most intelligence functions is dissemination, not holding the secrets in the darkness. For example, satellites take pictures, mobile phones are geolocated, HUMINT sources drop dimes. Then analysis happens high side, and a version of that is automatically and certifiably downgraded to e.g. a report about troop movements, without revealing specific characteristics of the sources used.
The pipeline for model assessments could easily report summary statistics down via a trusted guard product. These are amongst the most highly validated software/hardware devices made, and provide a central point for logging and authorisation out of band.
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It's feasible, it'll just slow them down. Which is unacceptable to the business leaders.
It wouldn't really cause more delay, there is established technology for this. They just refuse to acknowledge the scope of the problem and think they can girl boss gaslight gatekeep their way out.
I am unconvinced. Why can't they just set up workstations on the airgapped network to run and monitor their experiments?
Would that require the researchers to work directly from the data centers?
Or from an office with a cable running to the data center.
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It's funny to juxtapose the doomerism claims of superpowerful AI when they refuse to use mechanisms already commonly used for high security systems.
You create an airgapped network and monitor the systems using that. This is not rocket surgery.