Executive summary: AI companies are currently not on track to adequately secure model weights against state-level actors, which poses catastrophic risks as AI capabilities advance, but solving this problem is tractable with sufficient investment and public-private partnership.
Key points:
Most AI labs are only at Security Level 2-3, but Level 5 is needed to protect against motivated top state actors.
Achieving Level 5 security could take 5 years of R&D and massive investment, creating misaligned incentives for companies.
Failure to secure model weights risks catastrophic misuse of AI systems and undermining of alignment efforts.
Government involvement is likely necessary to solve incentive problems and provide needed expertise, but carries its own risks.
A public-private partnership combining government resources with industry AI expertise may be the best path forward.
Urgent action is needed given the potentially imminent development of highly capable and dangerous AI systems.
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Executive summary: AI companies are currently not on track to adequately secure model weights against state-level actors, which poses catastrophic risks as AI capabilities advance, but solving this problem is tractable with sufficient investment and public-private partnership.
Key points:
Most AI labs are only at Security Level 2-3, but Level 5 is needed to protect against motivated top state actors.
Achieving Level 5 security could take 5 years of R&D and massive investment, creating misaligned incentives for companies.
Failure to secure model weights risks catastrophic misuse of AI systems and undermining of alignment efforts.
Government involvement is likely necessary to solve incentive problems and provide needed expertise, but carries its own risks.
A public-private partnership combining government resources with industry AI expertise may be the best path forward.
Urgent action is needed given the potentially imminent development of highly capable and dangerous AI systems.
This comment was auto-generated by the EA Forum Team. Feel free to point out issues with this summary by replying to the comment, and contact us if you have feedback.