The Coalition for Safe Artificial Intelligence (CoSAI) has been Established.

Safe Artificial Intelligence Coalition (CoSAI) Announced

During the Aspen Security Forum, a significant step was taken in the field of artificial intelligence with the establishment of a new industry organization called the Safe Artificial Intelligence Coalition (CoSAI). Among the founding Premier Sponsors of CoSAI are technology giants such as Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and PayPal. Additionally, other important organizations such as Amazon, Anthropic, Cisco, Chainguard, Cohere, GenLab, OpenAI, and Wiz are also listed among the coalition’s founding sponsors.

CoSAI aims to provide guidance for the development of safe artificial intelligence systems through open-source methodologies, standardized frameworks, and various tools. This initiative will create a significant focus on the secure design, integration, deployment, and operation of artificial intelligence systems. Additionally, it will develop strategies to mitigate risks such as model theft, data poisoning, sudden injection, scaled exploitation, and inference attacks.

Similar to open-source community projects, CoSAI will establish a Project Management Board to advance and manage its overall technical agenda. Furthermore, it plans to supervise various workflows with a Technical Steering Committee comprised of AI experts from academia and industry. The initial topics of their work will include software supply chain security for AI systems, preparing advocates for the changing cybersecurity landscape, and AI security management.

CoSAI Board Co-Chair David LaBianca emphasized in his statement regarding the formation of CoSAI that the coalition’s main purpose is to democratize the knowledge and advancements necessary for the safe integration and deployment of artificial intelligence. LaBianca expressed great enthusiasm for continuing this work and fostering collaboration among leading companies, experts, and academics with the contributions of OASIS Open.