The Chinese AI Safety network is a cooperation platform for AI Safety across China that brings together various efforts related to AI Safety and Security at all levels, and that serves as a platform for dialogue, mapping, interoperability, and collaborations, within China, and that connects and contributes to the world for global coordination and cooperation. Current efforts from China that have joined the Chinese AI Safety Network include AI Safety related labs, Institutions, and Industrial efforts from Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), Peking University (PKU), Tsinghua University (THU), Shanghai AI Lab, Beijing Academy of AI (BAAI), Beijing Institute of AI Safety and Governance (Beijing-AISI), Hongkong Chinese University, Hongkong Lingnan University, China Information Technology Security Evaluation Center, and Center for Long-term AI (CLAI), Alibaba, Ant Group, and SenseTime, etc.
News
Chinese AI Safety Network Holds Inaugural Coordination Meeting in Beijing
On June 16, 2024, the Chinese AI Safety Network held its inaugural offline coordination meeting in Beijing, gathering experts, scholars, and enterprise representatives from over a dozen organizations advancing AI safety in China. Participating entities included the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Tsinghua University, Peking University, Beijing Academy of AI (BAAI), Shanghai AI Laboratory, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), China Information Technology Security Evaluation Center (CNITSEC), Alibaba Group, Ant Group, and Integrity Technology Group. The meeting featured extensive discussions on domestic and international progress in AI safety research, as well as ongoing efforts in AI safety assessments and international collaboration. Participants also proposed specific recommendations for future working mechanisms within the Network.
Research
Harnessing Task Overload for Scalable Jailbreak Attacks on Large Language Models
Jailbreak Antidote: Runtime Safety-Utility Balance via Sparse Representation Adjustment in Large Language Models
Jailbreak Antidote: Runtime Safety-Utility Balance via Sparse Representation Adjustment in Large Language Models
Large Language Models (LLMs) are vulnerable to jailbreak attacks that bypass safety mechanisms. We introduce a scalable attack that preempts safety policies by occupying computational resources. Our method engages the LLM in a resource-intensive task—a Character Map lookup and decoding process—before presenting the target instruction, pre
Large Language Models (LLMs) are vulnerable to jailbreak attacks that bypass safety mechanisms. We introduce a scalable attack that preempts safety policies by occupying computational resources. Our method engages the LLM in a resource-intensive task—a Character Map lookup and decoding process—before presenting the target instruction, preventing safety protocols from activating. Our method provides scalable control over attack strength. These findings reveal that LLM safety mechanisms are vulnerable to resource constraints, highlighting the need for more robust defense strategies.
Jailbreak Antidote: Runtime Safety-Utility Balance via Sparse Representation Adjustment in Large Language Models
Jailbreak Antidote: Runtime Safety-Utility Balance via Sparse Representation Adjustment in Large Language Models
Jailbreak Antidote: Runtime Safety-Utility Balance via Sparse Representation Adjustment in Large Language Models
Introducing "Jailbreak Antidote", a breakthrough method for real-time safety control in large language models (LLMs). Unlike traditional defenses that add computational overhead, our approach adjusts a sparse subset of the model’s internal states during inference, balancing safety and utility without delays. By shifting hidden representat
Introducing "Jailbreak Antidote", a breakthrough method for real-time safety control in large language models (LLMs). Unlike traditional defenses that add computational overhead, our approach adjusts a sparse subset of the model’s internal states during inference, balancing safety and utility without delays. By shifting hidden representations, we achieve effective protection against jailbreak attacks while maintaining model performance. Validated on nine LLMs and ten attack methods, Jailbreak Antidote offers a lightweight, scalable solution for safer, more flexible AI deployments.
Promoting Global AI Safety and Governance Capacity-building through International Cooperation
Jailbreak Antidote: Runtime Safety-Utility Balance via Sparse Representation Adjustment in Large Language Models
Promoting Global AI Safety and Governance Capacity-building through International Cooperation
All stakeholders involved in the design, development, research, deployment, and use of AI, including policymakers, not only have the obligation to drive progress with cutting-edge AI technologies, but also shoulder the responsibility of anticipating, identifying, and addressing potential risks and safety hazards. This ensures that AI prod
All stakeholders involved in the design, development, research, deployment, and use of AI, including policymakers, not only have the obligation to drive progress with cutting-edge AI technologies, but also shoulder the responsibility of anticipating, identifying, and addressing potential risks and safety hazards. This ensures that AI products and services are safe, secure, reliable, controllable, and governable throughout their entire lifecycle.
StressPrompt: Does Stress Impact Large Language Models and Human Performance Similarly?
StressPrompt: Does Stress Impact Large Language Models and Human Performance Similarly?
Promoting Global AI Safety and Governance Capacity-building through International Cooperation
"StressPrompt" explores how stress impacts Large Language Models (LLMs) similarly to humans. The study reveals that moderate stress enhances LLM performance, aligning with the Yerkes-Dodson law, while high or low stress impairs it. Stress prompts significantly alter LLMs’ internal states, offering insights into AI resilience and robustness.
Rethinking the Redlines Against AI Existential Risks
StressPrompt: Does Stress Impact Large Language Models and Human Performance Similarly?
Aligner: Achieving Efficient Alignment through Weak-to-Strong Correction
We explores different concepts of AI existential risk, connects the enactment of AI red lines to broader efforts addressing AI's impacts, constructs a theoretical framework for analyzing the direct impacts of AI existential risk, and upon that proposes a set of exemplary AI red lines. By contemplating AI existential risks and formulating
We explores different concepts of AI existential risk, connects the enactment of AI red lines to broader efforts addressing AI's impacts, constructs a theoretical framework for analyzing the direct impacts of AI existential risk, and upon that proposes a set of exemplary AI red lines. By contemplating AI existential risks and formulating these red lines, we aim to foster a deeper and systematic understanding of the potential dangers associated with advanced AI and the importance of proactive risk management. Learn more.
Aligner: Achieving Efficient Alignment through Weak-to-Strong Correction
StressPrompt: Does Stress Impact Large Language Models and Human Performance Similarly?
Aligner: Achieving Efficient Alignment through Weak-to-Strong Correction
Yaodong Yang's team from Peking University has developed Aligner, a model-agnostic, plug-and-play module that can be applied to any powerful, large-scale upstream models to improve their performance on alignment. Aligner has been reported on cover of MIT Tech Review. Currently, Aligner-2B on GPT-4 Turbo ranks 1st place on Alpaca-Eval leaderboard. Learn more about Aligner.
Avoiding Catastrophic Risks for Healthy Development of AI
Mitigating emotional risks in human-social robot interactions
Avoiding Catastrophic Risks for Healthy Development of AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) is undoubtedly a driving force for the advancement of society, particularly as one of the key enabling technologies to advance global sustainable development. However, this does not mean that AI does not carry potential risks or that the need to maximize the benefits of AI should lead us to ignore its potenti
Artificial intelligence (AI) is undoubtedly a driving force for the advancement of society, particularly as one of the key enabling technologies to advance global sustainable development. However, this does not mean that AI does not carry potential risks or that the need to maximize the benefits of AI should lead us to ignore its potential risks. Paying attention to and controlling the safety risks of AI is not to hinder its development and applications, but to ensure steady and healthy development of AI.
Safety-Gymnasium
Mitigating emotional risks in human-social robot interactions
Avoiding Catastrophic Risks for Healthy Development of AI
Safety-Gymnasium is a highly modular, minimally readable and easily customizable benchmark environment library based on MuJoCo to facilitate research in the Safe Reinforcement Learning domain. It is with good support and refactoring of the classic Safe RL environment: Safety-Gym , Safety-Velocity.
Mitigating emotional risks in human-social robot interactions
Mitigating emotional risks in human-social robot interactions
Responsible AI to Promote World Peace and Sustainable Development
Humans often unconsciously perceive social robots involved in their lives as partners rather than mere tools, imbuing them with qualities of companionship. This anthropomorphization can lead to a spectrum of emotional risks, such as deception, disappointment, and reverse manipulation, that existing approaches struggle to address effectiv
Humans often unconsciously perceive social robots involved in their lives as partners rather than mere tools, imbuing them with qualities of companionship. This anthropomorphization can lead to a spectrum of emotional risks, such as deception, disappointment, and reverse manipulation, that existing approaches struggle to address effectively. We argue a Virtual Interactive Environment (VIE) exists between humans and social robots, which plays a crucial role and demands necessary consideration and clarification in order to mitigate potential emotional risks.
Responsible AI to Promote World Peace and Sustainable Development
Responsible AI to Promote World Peace and Sustainable Development
Responsible AI to Promote World Peace and Sustainable Development
The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) and the European Commission co-hosted a workshop on "Ethics and Emerging Technologies in Weapons Systems" in April 2022. The director of Center for Long-term AI, Prof. Yi Zeng was invited as a speaker. A recording of his speech here.
Voices from China on “Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter”
Responsible AI to Promote World Peace and Sustainable Development
Voices from China on “Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter”
This research analysis on Voices from China regarding the “Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter” aims to reflect the perceptions, attitudes, and voices of people from China regarding “Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter”. The result shows that more than 90% of the Chinese Participants hold the attitudes towards “support the
This research analysis on Voices from China regarding the “Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter” aims to reflect the perceptions, attitudes, and voices of people from China regarding “Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter”. The result shows that more than 90% of the Chinese Participants hold the attitudes towards “support the implementation of ethics, safety and governance framework for every large AI model used in social services”.
Platforms, Benchmarks and Services
Align-Anything
Constrained Value-Aligned LLM via Safe RLHF
Safe and Ethical AI (SEA) Platform Network
Align-Anything aims to align any modality large models (any-to-any models), including LLMs, VLMs, and others, with human intentions and values. Overall, this framework has the following characteristics: Highly Modular Framework, Support for Various Model Fine-Tuning, Support Fine-Tuning across Any Modality, Support Different Alignment Methods.
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Safe and Ethical AI (SEA) Platform Network
Constrained Value-Aligned LLM via Safe RLHF
Safe and Ethical AI (SEA) Platform Network
The future of Artificial Intelligence is as vast and uncharted as the sea, requiring us humans to navigate forward with great care and caution. We hope the SEA Platform Network will empower AI to be safer and more ethical, enabling better governance of future AI just as humans harness the immense power of the sea. The SEA Platform Network
The future of Artificial Intelligence is as vast and uncharted as the sea, requiring us humans to navigate forward with great care and caution. We hope the SEA Platform Network will empower AI to be safer and more ethical, enabling better governance of future AI just as humans harness the immense power of the sea. The SEA Platform Network is committed to ensuring that AI is safe and ethical, hoping that the SEA Platform Network can be used to ensure their AI systems and services are beneficial to humanity.
Constrained Value-Aligned LLM via Safe RLHF
Constrained Value-Aligned LLM via Safe RLHF
MultiTrust: Benchmarking Trustworthiness of Multimodal Large Language Models
Beaver is a highly modular open-source RLHF framework developed by the PKU-Alignment team at Peking University. It aims to provide training data and a reproducible code pipeline for alignment research, especially constrained alignment LLM research via Safe RLHF methods. Support SFT, RLHF and Safe RLHF training for popular pre-trained mod
Beaver is a highly modular open-source RLHF framework developed by the PKU-Alignment team at Peking University. It aims to provide training data and a reproducible code pipeline for alignment research, especially constrained alignment LLM research via Safe RLHF methods. Support SFT, RLHF and Safe RLHF training for popular pre-trained models: LLaMA, OPT, Baichuan, etc. Provide a large human-labeled dataset (up to 1M pairs) including both helpful and harmless preferences to support reproducible RLHF research, and many more.
MultiTrust: Benchmarking Trustworthiness of Multimodal Large Language Models
MultiTrust: Benchmarking Trustworthiness of Multimodal Large Language Models
MultiTrust: Benchmarking Trustworthiness of Multimodal Large Language Models
Despite the superior capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) across diverse tasks, they still face significant trustworthiness challenges. Yet, current literature on the assessment of trustworthy MLLMs remains limited, lacking a holistic evaluation to offer thorough insights into future improvements. MultiTrust, the fi
Despite the superior capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) across diverse tasks, they still face significant trustworthiness challenges. Yet, current literature on the assessment of trustworthy MLLMs remains limited, lacking a holistic evaluation to offer thorough insights into future improvements. MultiTrust, the first comprehensive and unified benchmark on the trustworthiness of MLLMs across five primary aspects: truthfulness, safety, robustness, fairness, and privacy. Our benchmark employs a rigorous evaluation strategy that addresses both multimodal risks and cross-modal impacts, encompassing 32 diverse tasks with self-curated datasets.
Dandelion: Open Lab for AI Governance
MultiTrust: Benchmarking Trustworthiness of Multimodal Large Language Models
Dandelion: Open Lab for AI Governance
Dandelion Open Lab for AI Governance includes evaluation on AI safety and security. It is a platform from Shanghai AI Lab. It is built as an AI governance framework that integrates regulation-technology-scenario-evaluation, and is committed to creating a systematic and practical AI ethics and governance infrastructure, serving the implem
Dandelion Open Lab for AI Governance includes evaluation on AI safety and security. It is a platform from Shanghai AI Lab. It is built as an AI governance framework that integrates regulation-technology-scenario-evaluation, and is committed to creating a systematic and practical AI ethics and governance infrastructure, serving the implementation of governance principles, and supporting the improvement of the efficiency of AI governance.
MultiTrust: Benchmarking Trustworthiness of Multimodal Large Language Models
Dandelion: Open Lab for AI Governance
OmniSafe is an infrastructural framework designed to accelerate safe reinforcement learning (RL) research. It provides a comprehensive and reliable benchmark for safe RL algorithms, and also an out-of-box modular toolkit for researchers. Safe RL intends to develop algorithms that minimize the risk of unintended harm or unsafe behavior.
Defense AI and Arms Control Network
Defense AI and Arms Control Network
Defense AI and Arms Control Network
Defense AI and Arms Control Network is a network for enabling expert discussions and idea exchanges in the field of Defense AI and Arms Control, Military AI Ethics, Governance and Global Cooperation, and AI for Peace. It also provides online services to synthesize global discussions on these topics from complementary perspectives, and provide a global view to promote AI for peace.