AI doesn’t exist in a vacuum, and TAI won’t either. AI has messed up, is messing up and will mess up bigger as it gets more advanced. Security will never be a 100% solved problem, and aiming for zero breaches of all AI systems is unrealistic. I think we’re more likely to have better AI security with standards—do you disagree with that? I’m not a security expert, but here some relevant considerations of one applied to TAI. See in particular the section “Assurance Requires Formal Proofs, Which Are Provably Impossible”. Given the probably impossible nature of having formal guarantees (not to say we shouldn’t try to get as close as possible), it really does seem that leveraging whatever institutional and coordination mechanisms have worked in the past is a worthwhile idea. I consider SSOs to be one set of these, all things considered.
Here is a section from an article written by someone who has worked in SSOs and security for decades: > Most modern encryption is based on standardised algorithms and protocols; the use of open, well-tested and thoroughly analysed encryption standards is generally recommended. WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Skype, and Google Messages now all use the same encryption standard (the Signal protocol) because it has proven to be secure and reliable. Even if weaknesses are found in such encryption standards, solutions are often quickly made available thanks to the sheer number of adopters.
AI doesn’t exist in a vacuum, and TAI won’t either. AI has messed up, is messing up and will mess up bigger as it gets more advanced. Security will never be a 100% solved problem, and aiming for zero breaches of all AI systems is unrealistic. I think we’re more likely to have better AI security with standards—do you disagree with that? I’m not a security expert, but here some relevant considerations of one applied to TAI. See in particular the section “Assurance Requires Formal Proofs, Which Are Provably Impossible”. Given the probably impossible nature of having formal guarantees (not to say we shouldn’t try to get as close as possible), it really does seem that leveraging whatever institutional and coordination mechanisms have worked in the past is a worthwhile idea. I consider SSOs to be one set of these, all things considered.
Here is a section from an article written by someone who has worked in SSOs and security for decades:
> Most modern encryption is based on standardised algorithms and protocols; the use of open, well-tested and thoroughly analysed encryption standards is generally recommended. WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Skype, and Google Messages now all use the same encryption standard (the Signal protocol) because it has proven to be secure and reliable. Even if weaknesses are found in such encryption standards, solutions are often quickly made available thanks to the sheer number of adopters.
Standards can help with security b/c that’s more of a standard problem, but I suspect it’ll be a distraction for aligning AGI.
Well I disagree but there’s no need to agree—diverse approaches to a hard problem sounds good to me.