More than 12 of the country’s largest technology providers and AI developers Release The Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI) bills itself as an open-source community dedicated to providing practitioners and developers with guidance and tools for creating artificial intelligence systems that are secure by design.
The group said its “major founding sponsors” were Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NVIDIA and PayPal, while other founding sponsors included Amazon, Anthropic, Cisco, Chainguard, Cohere, GenLab, OpenAI and Wiz.
CoSAI is run by OASIS Open, a non-profit consortium based in Woburn, Massachusetts, that works to develop and adopt open standards and open source projects across a range of technology areas, including security, blockchain, cloud computing and data exchange.
The coalition said it aims to “strengthen trust and security in the use and deployment of AI” and to “develop comprehensive security measures that address classical and inherent risks in AI systems.”
The group said its scope of work includes “securely building, integrating, deploying and operating AI systems, with a focus on mitigating risks such as model theft, data contamination, prompt injection, scaled misuse and inference attacks.”
To achieve these goals, the coalition said it would include the first three work streams:
- Software supply chain security for AI systems: Protect AI applications with enhanced configuration and provenance tracking.
- Preparing defenders for a changing cybersecurity environment: Addressing the challenges of investing in and integrating AI with traditional systems.
- AI Security Governance: Developing AI security best practices and risk assessment frameworks.
David LaBianca, a senior director at Google who co-chairs the CoSAI board, said the organization’s creation is “rooted in the need to democratize the knowledge and advancements essential to the safe integration and deployment of AI.”
“We are committed to working with organizations that are at the forefront of responsible and safe AI technology,” added Omar Santos, a Cisco distinguished engineer who also serves as co-chair of the CoSAI board. “CoSAI will bring together the expertise and resources of both companies to accelerate the development of robust AI security standards and practices that will benefit the entire industry.”
