Description
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking innovative solutions to address the need for new security research tools for artificial intelligence (AI) hardware accelerators. The goal is to develop tools that can assist in the vulnerability research and analysis of the AI technology stack. Potential awardees will research and develop tools to address the challenges associated with analyzing highly parallelized systems and distributed computing architectures resident on AI accelerator hardware. The desired capabilities and expertise include defining the problem and current state of the art, advancing the state of the art, team capability, and impact.
Some key points to consider:
• Developing tools that can handle parallel processing and introspect individual threads
• Advancing the state of the art in vulnerability research tools for highly parallelized systems
• Demonstrating expertise in vulnerability research and parallel processing systems
• Developing tools that can be open-sourced to encourage the cybersecurity industry to research and improve the security of AI accelerator hardware