Intel is pleased to announce its founding membership in the Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI),

which seeks to promote a cooperative ecosystem for the

development and application of secure AI.

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to change the world at a rapid pace, adopters and developers must navigate uneven and isolated guidelines and standards in order to secure AI technology. It is essential that developers create and disseminate procedures that prioritize security while they solve these problems. AI is just one more example of how security in the future will demand collaboration.

Driving the uptake of breakthrough technologies across all industries is nothing new for Intel. We recognize the opportunities and understand the difficulties that our partners and clients encounter. It is also well known that in order to streamline the application of new developments, standards and best practices must be developed quickly. Security is a key component of every product in our portfolio, and we are excited to apply our industry-leading security assurance knowledge to assist everyone in enhancing new AI solutions.

CEO Pat Gelsinger presented a roadmap for open, scalable AI systems at Intel Vision 2024, outlining frameworks, tools, hardware, and software. Intel has joined Google, IBM, and other firms as founding members of the Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI), marking another advancement in that journey. CoSAI is a project that aims to provide all practitioners and developers with the knowledge and resources they need to build AI systems that are secure by design. It is hosted by the open source global standards group OASIS Open.

This is a crucial collaborative effort for the industry, bringing together a diverse global group of leaders across companies, academia and other relevant fields who will work together to develop and share holistic approaches, best practices, tools and methodologies for secure AI development and deployment. Initially in this effort, CoSAI’s contributors will collaborate on three key work streams:

• Software supply chain security for AI systems: enhancing composition and provenance tracking to secure AI applications.
• Preparing defenders for a changing cybersecurity landscape: addressing investments and integration challenges in AI and classical systems.
• AI security governance: developing best practices and risk assessment frameworks for AI security.

As part of our dedication to developing AI technology responsibly, Intel will keep working with industry partners to develop cutting-edge solutions that address security, transparency, and trust. Additionally, CoSAI enhances the recently announced Open Platform for Enterprise AI (OPEA), the newest Sandbox Project from the Linux Foundation AI & Data. Apart from CoSAI, Intel was a founding member of OPEA, an initiative to promote interoperability within a heterogeneous and varied ecosystem, beginning with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), in order to expedite safe and economical GenAI installations for enterprises.

As the market responds to the insatiable demand for AI, technology vendors must remain committed to open solutions that provide choice while also driving standards for security that best protects users. And at Intel, we will continue delivering and improving on the product security needed to help secure the development and deployment of AI.