Headline : Microsoft developed an ‘air-gapped’ AI for spies that’s isolated from the internet

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Microsoft deployed a generative AI model on Thursday for U.S. intelligence agencies to analyze top-secret information, Bloomberg reports. Microsoft announced the AI offering at the 2024 SCSP AI Expo for National Competitiveness in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday. The GPT-4-based model was created to be entirely divorced from the internet, allowing it to securely process classified data.

“This is the first time we’ve ever had an isolated version – when isolated means it’s not connected to the internet – and it’s on a special network that’s only accessible by the U.S. government,” said William Chappell, Microsoft’s chief technology officer for strategic missions and technology, told Bloomberg. “You don’t want it to learn on the questions that you’re asking and then somehow reveal that information.”

Intelligence communities have been desperate for a ChatGPT-like product, but the security risks with generative AI products are too high. Chappell tells Bloomberg this model deployed last week is secure, thanks to an “air-gapped” cloud environment that isolates it from the internet. While most AI models learn from files uploaded into them, this GPT-4 spy model will not. That way, the government can keep this model “clean” and prevent secret info from getting absorbed into the platform.

This appears to be the first-ever AI model built specifically for classified workloads, as well as the first major large language model to operate fully separate from the internet. Last year, the Central Intelligence Agency rolled out its own ChatGPT-style AI tool to sift through mounds of public information. However, that AI model was not used on any classified documentation. Other government agencies, including the Pennsylvania Office of Administration, use generative AI to work with non-classified data.

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