David Bau in the Press
We Don’t Really Know How A.I. Works. That’s a Problem.
David Bau, who was doing similar work at Northeastern, told me: “I think that people will agree that it’s evidence that the black box is not totally opaque. I think we’ve turned a corner.”
NBC News
AI models may be accidentally (and secretly) learning each other’s bad behaviors
AI researcher David Bau, director of Northeastern University’s National Deep Inference Fabric, a project that aims to help researchers understand how large language models work, said these findings show how AI models could be vulnerable to data poisoning, allowing bad actors to more easily insert malicious traits into the models that they’re training.
