dual-use foundation model

{
  "id": "MLC-T-CYB-001467",
  "term": "dual-use foundation model",
  "field": "Cybersecurity",
  "definition": "An AI model that is trained on broad data; generally uses self-supervision; contains at least tens of billions of parameters; is applicable across a wide range of contexts; and that exhibits, or could be easily modified to exhibit, high levels of performance at tasks that pose a serious risk to security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination of those matters, such as by:\n\n(i) substantially lowering the barrier of entry for non-experts to design, synthesize, acquire, or use chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) weapons;\n\n(ii) enabling powerful offensive cyber operations through automated vulnerability discovery and exploitation against a wide range of potential targets of cyber attacks; or\n\n(iii) permitting the evasion of human control or oversight through means of deception or obfuscation.\n\nModels meet this definition even if they are provided to end users with technical safeguards that attempt to prevent users from taking advantage of the relevant unsafe capabilities.",
  "references": [
    "NIST SP 800-218A from E.O. 14110",
    "NIST CSRC Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/cybersecurity/dual-use-foundation-model/"
}