Highlights: Who tries to steal AI models & what they could do with them | Sella Nevo (#196)

Host Luisa Rodriguez spoke to Sella Nevo, director of the Meselson Center at RAND, about his team’s findings from interviewing about 30 cybersecurity experts – people at AI companies, cybersecurity companies, and in national security — about who might try to steal AI model weights, and how they’d do it.

Highlights include:
• Luisa’s intro (00:00:00)
• Why protect model weights? (00:00:23)
• SolarWinds hack (00:03:51)
• Zero-days (00:08:16)
• Side-channel attacks (00:11:45)
• USB cables (00:15:11)

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