Think You’ve Eliminated Chinese AI? Check the Model’s Lineage, Cisco Says
New research shows that country-of-origin labels can obscure an AI model’s upstream dependencies, inherited behaviors and potential security risks. The post Think You’ve Eliminated Chinese AI? Check the Model’s Lineage, Cisco Says appeared first on SecurityWeek.
If you think you’ve excluded all Chinese AI from your tech stack, you may need to think again.
The US government’s attitude toward Chinese AI is that it is a national security threat. This alone could persuade patriotic Americans to eschew any AI labelled ‘Chinese’ in favor of an AI without that label. Cisco has published details on new research from itself and VAIL demonstrating that national labels do not give an accurate picture of model lineage and characteristics.
In a blog post titled “The ‘U.S. vs. China’ AI Trap: An Incomplete Proxy for AI Security,” Cisco argues that country labels do not provide a complete picture of an AI model’s components because of a phenomenon it calls provenance entanglement.
Source: https://www.securityweek.com/think-youve-eliminated-chinese-ai-check-the-models-lineage-cisco-says/
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