It’s Time to Harvest the Secure AI Tech Tree

Foresight’s “Secure AI Tech Tree” represents one of the clearest and most complete taxonomies of Secure AI ingredients available, complete with a catalog of problems with each ingredient’s solo use and directions for solutions. Scanning the tree, one observes that the taxonomy of solutions is almost universally formed through combinations with other branches. Yet the tree leaves these “solution combinations” unresolved—a tapestry of dis-integrated observations about ingredient-pairings that can work. So what is the final product when they’re actually combined? What is Secure AI? In this talk, Andrew Trask will attempt to harvest the Secure AI Tech Tree and describe its vision in the form of an integrated theory of Secure AI. He will survey the combination of deep learning, cryptography, and distributed systems technologies listed on the tree, describing a fully combined integration which theoretically addresses many of the key problems in cooperative, privacy-preserving, secure, robust, transparent, verifiable, and aligned AI—the high-level subjects of the tree. In doing so, this talk will reveal the Tech Tree’s solutions to many low-level problems while also uncovering a higher-order problem: what are the incentives that would trigger such an integrated solution, what are the problems preventing those incentives, and how can they be overcome? Trask believes this perspective of the tree can reveal the final major hurdle to broad Secure AI adoption in the world. Attendees should come ready for a rich, spicy discussion about the Secure AI Tech Tree and the next steps for the Secure AI community.