Crossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical jargon than usual.

People talk about model weight security being really hard and crucial around the advent of AGI. (E.g. RAND report, Leopold; see here for some distinctions in these thread models that I think are important.) But I think that the thinking on this has not been sufficiently attentive to the fact that during that crucial time period, by assumption we’ll have access to powerful AIs. I think that such access might make security wildly easier, by a bunch of different mechanisms, some of which I’ll describe in this post.

The story I’m telling here is pretty different from the main story I've heard people talk about in the past about AIs helping with computer security, which is that AIs can help with hardening software and other infrastructure. Though I agree that that seems really useful and important, here [...]

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Outline:

(02:41) Four strategies for using powerful AI to improve security

(02:46) Monitoring

(03:49) Trust displacement

(04:53) Fine-grained permission management

(06:13) AI investigation of automatically detected suspicious activity

(06:37) How vulnerable to jailbreaks or trickery is this?

(08:51) These techniques seem really powerful

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First published:
June 8th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2wxufQWK8rXcDGbyL/access-to-powerful-ai-might-make-computer-security-radically

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

“Access to powerful AI might make computer security radically easier” by Buck

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