Identifying and Mitigating the Security Risks of Generative AI

Clark Barrett
Brad Boyd
Brad Chen
Jihye Choi
Amrita Roy Chowdhury
Anupam Datta
Soheil Feizi
Kathleen Fisher
Tatsunori B. Hashimoto
Dan Hendrycks
Somesh Jha
Daniel Kang
Florian Kerschbaum
Eric Mitchell
John Mitchell
Zulfikar Ramzan
Khawaja Shams
Dawn Song
Ankur Taly
Diyi Yang
Foundations and Trends in Privacy and Security, 6 (2023), pp. 1-52

Abstract

Every major technical invention resurfaces the dual-use dilemma—the new technology has the potential to be used for good as well as for harm. Generative AI (GenAI) techniques, such as large language models (LLMs) and diffusion models, have shown remarkable capabilities (e.g., in-context learning, code-completion, and text-to-image generation and editing). However, GenAI can be used just as well by attackers to generate new attacks and increase
the velocity and efficacy of existing attacks. This paper reports the findings of a workshop held at Google (co-organized by Stanford University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison) on the dual-use dilemma posed by GenAI. This paper is not meant to be comprehensive,
and reports on some of the interesting findings from the workshop. We discuss short-term and long-term goals for the community on this topic. We hope this paper provides a launching point on this important topic and provides interesting problems that the research community can work to address.