14 major companies in the AI field including Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Amazon, Nvidia, IBM, PayPal, Cisco, Anthropic, and Intel are coming together to form the Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI). This development reportedly aims to address the “fragmented landscape of AI security”.
CoSAI, hosted by the OASIS global standards body, is an open-source initiative that aims to provide all AI practitioners and developers with the guidance and tools they need to create and design secure AI systems. It is expected to build a collaborative ecosystem to share open-source methods, standardized frameworks, and tools.
CoSAI is an open-source community led by a Project Council (which is responsible for advancing and managing its overall agenda), and a Technical Steering Committee (composed of AI experts from academia and industry, which oversees its workstreams).
The primary goals of the initiative are listed below:
- Developing best practices for AI Safety
- Meeting challenges in the field of artificial intelligence
- Ensuring the security of AI applications
The scope of CoSAI’s work includes securely building, integrating, deploying, and operating AI systems, with a focus on mitigating risks such as model theft, data poisoning, hint injection, scale abuse, and inference attacks.
Heather Adkins, Google’s vice president of security stated:
AI has been under development for many years, with the continued potential it offers defenders, while also recognizing the opportunities it presents to adversaries. CoSAI will help organizations large and small integrate AI safely and responsibly, helping them leverage the benefits of AI while mitigating risks.
The initiative is reportedly sponsored by Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Nvidia, PayPal, Amazon, Anthropic, Cisco, Chainguard, Cohere, GenLab, OpenAI, and Wiz.
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