80k After Hours   /     Highlights: #195 – Sella Nevo on who's trying to steal frontier AI models, and what they could do with them

This is a selection of highlights from episode #195 of The 80,000 Hours Podcast.

These aren't necessarily the most important, or even most entertaining parts of the interview — and if you enjoy this, we strongly recommend checking out the full episode:

Sella Nevo on who's trying to steal frontier AI models, and what they could do with them

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Chapters:

• Luisa’s intro (00:00:00)
• Why protect model weights? (00:00:23)
• SolarWinds hack (00:03:51)
• Zero-days (00:08:16)
• Side-channel attacks (00:11:45)
• USB cables (00:15:11)

Highlights put together by Simon Monsour, Milo McGuire, and Dominic Armstrong