In this blog you will hear directly from Corporate Vice President and Deputy Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for AI, Yonatan Zunger, about how to build a plan to deploy AI safely. This blog is part of a new ongoing series where our Deputy CISOs share their thoughts on what is most important in their respective domains. In this series you will get practical advice, forward-looking commentary on where the industry is going, things you should stop doing, and more. How do you deploy AI safely? As Microsoft’s Deputy CISO for AI, my day job is to think about all the things that can go wrong with AI. This, as you can imagine, is a pretty long list. But despite that, we’ve been able to successfully develop, deploy, and use a wide range of generative AI products in the past few years, and see significant real value from them. If you’re reading this, you’ve likely been asked to do something similar in your own organization—to develop AI systems for your own use, or deploy ones that you’ve acquired from others. I’d like to share some of the most important ways that we think about prospective deployments, ensure we understand the risks, and have confidence that we have the right management plan in place. This is way more than can fit into a single blog, so this post is just the introduction to a much wider set of resources. In this post, I’ll articulate the basic principles we use in our thinking. These principles are meant to be applicable far beyond Microsoft, and indeed…Read More
