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New NIST report sounds the alarm on growing threat of AI attacks


NIST releases a critical guide detailing defenses against sophisticated adversarial AI attacks, aiming to secure machine learning systems across industries.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released an urgent report to aid in the defense against an escalating threat landscape targeting artificial intelligence (AI) systems. “Recent work shows that poisoning could be orchestrated at scale so that an adversary with limited financial resources can control a fraction of public datasets used for model training,” the report says. “AI chatbots enabled by recent advances in deep learning have emerged as a powerful technology with great potential for numerous business applications,” the NIST report states.

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