Legislation aims to strengthen lab security against foreign adversaries
This week, leaders from the House Select Committee on the CCP introduced new legislation that would task the National Security Agency (NSA) with creating an AI Security Playbook to identify vulnerabilities in America’s AI infrastructure and develop strategies for detecting, preventing, and responding to threats targeting AI technologies. Americans for Responsible Innovation (ARI) endorses the Advanced AI Security Readiness Act, sponsored by Committee Chair John Moolenaar (R-MI), Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), and Representative Darin LaHood (R-IL).
“As AI technology becomes integral to our economy and to our national security, AI infrastructure inevitably becomes more of a target,” said ARI President Brad Carson. “This bill takes the first step toward hardening lab security by putting NSA on the case. The bipartisan leadership behind this bill shows that protecting America’s AI innovations is a priority we all share.”
Recent research from Gladstone AI finds that America’s top AI labs are vulnerable to asymmetrical sabotage, where relatively cheap attacks could disable them for months, and exfiltration attacks, in which AI model weights could be stolen or surveilled. Independent experts estimate that the U.S. is years away from being able to protect AI model weights against well-resourced state-sponsored attacks.
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