Advancements in AI Governance and Cybersecurity

The field of AI governance and cybersecurity is rapidly evolving, with a growing focus on developing effective technical proposals for attributing generative AI content and ensuring accountability. Current implementations of watermarking, a leading technical proposal, are being reevaluated to address the gap between regulatory expectations and technical limitations. Meanwhile, innovations in open-source RISC-V cores are improving energy efficiency and performance, challenging common beliefs about the trade-offs between high performance and energy efficiency. Research on information leakage in real-time systems is also yielding new insights, with the development of statistical analysis techniques to infer execution patterns and identify critical invocations. As AI-enabled cyber capabilities advance, strategies like differential access are being explored to tilt the cybersecurity balance toward defense. The development of flexible hardware-enabled guarantees and technical options for AI governance mechanisms is also underway, with a focus on verifiable claims about compute usage and physical tamper protection. Noteworthy papers in this area include: Watermarking Without Standards Is Not AI Governance, which proposes a three-layer framework to realign watermarking with governance goals. Ramping Up Open-Source RISC-V Cores, which presents a modified version of the OoO C910 core and an enhanced version of the CVA6 core, achieving significant performance improvements. Asterinas, which proposes a novel OS architecture called framekernel to achieve intra-kernel privilege separation and ensure a minimal and sound Trusted Computing Base.

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Watermarking Without Standards Is Not AI Governance

Ramping Up Open-Source RISC-V Cores: Assessing the Energy Efficiency of Superscalar, Out-of-Order Execution

Investigating Timing-Based Information Leakage in Data Flow-Driven Real-Time Systems

Asymmetry by Design: Boosting Cyber Defenders with Differential Access to AI

Characterization of latency and jitter in TSN emulation

Technical Options for Flexible Hardware-Enabled Guarantees

Bridging the Artificial Intelligence Governance Gap: The United States' and China's Divergent Approaches to Governing General-Purpose Artificial Intelligence

Asterinas: A Linux ABI-Compatible, Rust-Based Framekernel OS with a Small and Sound TCB

ROSGuard: A Bandwidth Regulation Mechanism for ROS2-based Applications

OpenCCA: An Open Framework to Enable Arm CCA Research

Intentionally Unintentional: GenAI Exceptionalism and the First Amendment

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