Google on Thursday officially introduced the Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI), a new initiative aimed at tackling the cybersecurity risks associated with artificial intelligence (AI).
Housed under OASIS Open, the international standards and open source consortium, CoSAI includes founding members such as Amazon, Anthropic, Chainguard, Cisco, Cohere, GenLab, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI, PayPal, and Wiz.
“We’ve been working to pull this coalition together over the past year, in order to advance comprehensive security measures for addressing the unique risks that come with AI, for both issues that arise in real time and those over the horizon,” Google says.
CoSAI is posed to support efforts in adopting common security standards and best practices in AI security by collaborating with the industry and academia on three main areas.
Firstly, the coalition will focus on the software supply chain by providing guidance on evaluating provenance, managing third-party model risks, and assessing full AI application provenance.
Secondly, it will work on a framework to help defenders identify techniques to address the security impact of AI use and scale mitigation strategies.
Thirdly, the coalition will work on the development of guidance for practitioners by creating a taxonomy of risks and controls, a checklist, and a scorecard to help assess, monitor, manage, and report on the security of AI.
CoSAI, which will use Google’s Secure AI Framework, will also work together with Frontier Model Forum, ML Commons, Open Source Security Foundation, Partnership on AI, and similar organizations to advance responsible AI.
“AI developers need — and end users deserve — a framework for AI security that meets the moment and responsibly captures the opportunity in front of us. CoSAI is the next step in that journey and we can expect more updates in the coming months,” Google notes.
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