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IARPA looks to next round of AI cybersecurity research

IARPA has been leading the Trojans in Artificial Intelligence (TrojAI) program, which seeks to defend AI systems by conducting research and developing technology to detect and mitigate these attacks. (IARPA)

By Justin Doubleday

The intelligence community already has plenty of challenges with unauthorized disclosures, and its lead research arm wants to make sure ChatGPT isn’t the next leaker to make news headlines.

That’s one of the challenges the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity is considering under its next round of artificial intelligence research. IARPA’s current program for AI cybersecurity, called “TrojAI,” is wrapping up this year. The effort was launched in 2019 to develop means of detecting adversarial attacks on AI systems. It was established prior to the widespread advances in large language models that power generative artificial intelligence.

IARPA Director Rick Muller said LLMs will be a major focus area for the next program.

Read more at Federal News Network