In its Accountable AI Transparency Report, which primarily covers 2023, Microsoft touts its achievements round safely deploying AI merchandise. The annual AI transparency report is likely one of the commitments the corporate made after signing a voluntary settlement with the White Home in July final yr. Microsoft and different corporations promised to determine accountable AI techniques and decide to security.
Microsoft says within the report that it created 30 accountable AI instruments up to now yr, grew its accountable AI group, and required groups making generative AI purposes to measure and map dangers all through the event cycle. The corporate notes that it added Content material Credentials to its picture era platforms, which places a watermark on a photograph, tagging it as made by an AI mannequin.
The corporate says it’s given Azure AI prospects entry to instruments that detect problematic content material like hate speech, sexual content material, and self-harm, in addition to instruments to judge safety dangers. This consists of new jailbreak detection strategies, which had been expanded in March this yr to incorporate oblique immediate injections the place the malicious directions are a part of knowledge ingested by the AI mannequin.
It’s additionally increasing its red-teaming efforts, together with each in-house purple groups that intentionally attempt to bypass security options in its AI fashions in addition to red-teaming purposes to permit third-party testing earlier than releasing new fashions.
Nevertheless, its red-teaming items have their work minimize out for them. The corporate’s AI rollouts haven’t been resistant to controversies.
Natasha Crampton, chief accountable AI officer at Microsoft, says in an e-mail despatched to The Verge that the corporate understands AI remains to be a piece in progress and so is accountable AI.
“Accountable AI has no end line, so we’ll by no means think about our work beneath the Voluntary AI commitments finished. However we’ve got made sturdy progress since signing them and stay up for constructing on our momentum this yr,” Crampton says.