Description
AI Safety and the Race to Demonstrate Threat: How AI Labs Compete Over Danger — a survey of a frontier of autonomous AI in the Agents in the Wild series.
Book framework (chapter themes):
- Introduction — The AI Safety Threat Landscape and the Scope of This Survey
- Core Concepts and Theoretical Frameworks of AI Safety
- Formal Formulation of the Alignment Problem and Its Theoretical Difficulties
- Taxonomy and Threat Modeling of Large Language Model Safety Threats
- Jailbreak Attacks and Prompt Injection: Mechanisms, Variants, and Detection
- Safety Threats of Multimodal Models and Cross-Modal Attack Surfaces
- Agent Safety: Tool Use, Autonomous Action, and Runtime Protection
- Post-Training Optimization of Safety Alignment and Fine-Tuning Risks
- Inference-Time Safety Scaling and Computational Efficiency Trade-offs
- Construction, Classification, and Consistency Analysis of Safety Evaluation Benchmarks
- Threat Assessment for Physical Safety and Embodied Intelligent Systems
- Adversarial Machine Learning: Attack Mechanisms and Defense Strategies
- Application of Mechanistic Interpretability in Safety Verification
- Methodology of Red Teaming and Threat Demonstration Competitions
- Safety Guardrails and Runtime Monitoring Mechanisms
- Safety Threat Modeling for Human Oversight and Socio-Technical Systems
- Security Threats of Cyber-Physical Systems and Autonomous Driving
- Existential Risk and Safety Governance of Superintelligence
- Frontier Challenges and Open Problems in Safety Evaluation
- Future Directions: From Threat Demonstration to the Safety Engineering Paradigm
Who it is for. Researchers, engineers, and advanced enthusiasts in the field of artificial intelligence who have a foundation in machine learning and security engineering and who wish to systematically understand AI safety threats, defense mechanisms, and evaluation methodologies.