Beyond Mapping Adversarial Subspaces: Why AI Security Needs Architectural Defenses
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The recent paper by Disesdi Susanna Cox and Niklas Bunzel, titled 'Quantifying the Risk of Transferred Black Box Attacks,' represents a pivotal moment in the field of adversarial risk research. It emphasizes the critical issue of transferability in AI security, proposing a surrogate-model testing approach guided by Centered Kernel Alignment (CKA) to help organizations quantify risks effectively. This framework is particularly relevant in compliance-driven environments where understanding adversarial threats is crucial. However, the authors also reveal a deeper structural problem: current neural architectures do not incorporate cryptographic or state-integrity boundaries, which are essential for controlling the evolution of adversarial subspaces. As a result, adversarial behavior can spread beyond isolated areas, complicating the security landscape of AI systems. This dynamic is reminiscent of recursive inference collapse, where perturbations during evaluation become entrenched in the m…
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