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Inside the US Government's Unpublished Report on AI Safety | The National Institute of Standards and Technology conducted a groundbreaking study on frontier models just before Donald Trump's second term as president—and never published the results.


The National Institute of Standards and Technology conducted a groundbreaking study on frontier models just before Donald Trump's second term as president—and never published the results.

At a computer security conference in Arlington, Virginia, last October, a few dozen AI researchers took part in a first-of-its-kind exercise in “red teaming,” or stress-testing a cutting-edge language model and other artificial intelligence systems. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) didn’t publish a report detailing the exercise, which was finished toward the end of the Biden administration. The researchers discovered various tricks for getting the models and tools tested to jump their guardrails and generate misinformation, leak personal data, and help craft cybersecurity attacks.

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