Think You’ve Eliminated Chinese AI? Check the Model’s Lineage, Cisco Says
If you think you’ve excluded all Chinese AI from your tech stack, you may need to think again.
The US government’s attitude toward Chinese AI is that it is a national security threat. This alone could persuade patriotic Americans to eschew any AI labelled ‘Chinese’ in favor of an AI without that label. Cisco has published details on new research from itself and VAIL demonstrating that national labels do not give an accurate picture of model lineage and characteristics.
In a blog post titled “The ‘U.S. vs. China’ AI Trap: An Incomplete Proxy for AI Security,” Cisco argues that country labels do not provide a complete picture of an AI model’s components because of a phenomenon it calls provenance entanglement.
Researchers used two AI model fingerprinting methods to analyze model weights and behavioral patterns, and found that they do not accurately or necessarily reflect the model’s publisher name and country...
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