Madhav Malhotra

Summary Insider threats are security risks caused by an organisation's staff. Careless and intentional insider threats cause 25+% of cyber breaches.[1] In a survey of existential risks involving cybersecurity and AI, I identified key actors in the AI supply chain to protect: compute manufacturers, frontier AI labs, and AI regulatory...

Context: this post summarises recent research to prevent AI algorithms from being misused by unauthorised actors. After discussing four recent case studies, common research flaws and possible solutions are mentioned. A real-life motivating problem is how Meta's LLaMa had its parameters leaked online (Vincent, 2023), plausibly enabling actors like hackers...