NSA spends billions of dollars this year testing SI models, hundreds of times more than oversight bills provide for
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Seriously testing frontier SI costs almost as much as building it: SI oversight is becoming a huge industry of its own.
According to two sources familiar with classified assessments, the NSA told lawmakers that its AI Security Center is spending billions testing frontier models for national security vulnerabilities. The main cost items are compute, which has become more expensive amid the chip shortage, and hiring engineers, whom labs compete for. For comparison, the Congressional Budget Office estimated an SI security bill at about $20 million a year, and another bill at $36 million over five years.
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