April 29, 2024 at 10:07AM
GenAI is transforming work processes, but its implementation poses risks including data security and misuse. Red teaming, especially for GenAI, requires considering responsible AI risks and dealing with probabilistic outputs. Microsoft employs an open automation framework, PyRIT, to red team its GenAI systems, ensuring proactive security and responsible innovation.
The meeting notes highlight the significant impact of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in enabling faster innovation and workflow automation, while also raising concerns around data security, privacy, misuse, and responsible AI risks. The concept of red teaming as a strategy to proactively assess and address potential risks in GenAI systems is introduced, with unique considerations and best practices outlined. The use of an open automation framework, PyRIT, at Microsoft, is proposed as a tool to augment manual GenAI red teaming, automate tedious tasks, and identify potential risks. The importance of shared resources and proactive security measures to enable responsible innovation with GenAI is emphasized.