Securing AI Model Weights: Preventing Theft and Misuse of Frontier Models
Nevo, Sella, Lahav, Dan, Karpur, Ajay, Bar-On, Yogev, Bradley, Henry Alexander, Alstott, Jeff · RAND Corporation eBooks · 2024
As frontier artificial intelligence (AI) models — that is, models that match or exceed the capabilities of the most advanced models at the time of their development — become more capable, protecting them from theft and misuse will become more important. The authors of this report explore what it would take to protect model weights — the learnable parameters that encode the core intelligence of an AI — from theft by a variety of potential attackers.