February 23, 2024 at 07:21AM
Microsoft has unveiled PyRIT, an open-access automation framework, to proactively identify risks in generative AI systems. The tool aims to assess robustness, security, and privacy harms, offering various interfaces and scoring options. Though it complements manual red teaming, it highlights risk areas and prompts further investigation. This development coincides with Protect AI’s disclosure of critical vulnerabilities in popular AI platforms.
From the meeting notes, key points include:
1. Microsoft has released an open access automation framework called PyRIT (Python Risk Identification Tool) to proactively identify risks in generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems.
2. PyRIT is designed to assess the robustness of large language model endpoints against different harm categories such as fabrication, misuse, and prohibited content. It can also identify security and privacy harms.
3. The tool comes with five interfaces: target, datasets, scoring engine, the ability to support multiple attack strategies, and incorporating a memory component.
4. PyRIT offers options for scoring the outputs from the target AI system, allowing red teamers to use a classical machine learning classifier or leverage an LLM endpoint for self-evaluation.
5. Microsoft emphasizes that PyRIT is not a replacement for manual red teaming of generative AI systems but is meant to complement a red team’s existing domain expertise.
6. Manual probing is often needed for identifying potential blind spots in generative AI systems, but automation is necessary for scaling.
Additionally, it was noted that Protect AI disclosed critical vulnerabilities in popular AI supply chain platforms such as ClearML, Hugging Face, MLflow, and Triton Inference Server.
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