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Scalable structures for verifiable audits beyond enclaves

Develop scalable approaches for verifiable audits of AI systems that do not require all evaluation and inference to occur inside trusted execution environments, thereby reducing computational overhead while maintaining strong verification guarantees.

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Background

Zero-knowledge proofs and TEEs can enable trustless audits, but current designs may impose significant overhead and require enclave-only evaluation and inference, limiting practicality and scope.

Finding scalable audit verification structures would make trust-preserving audits feasible for a broader range of systems and use cases.

References

Another open problem is that this pipeline requires that all evaluation and inference is done in enclaves and with significant computational overhead, effectively limiting verifiable audits for a few critical systems, and necessitating more scalable structures for verifying audits.

Open Problems in Technical AI Governance (2407.14981 - Reuel et al., 20 Jul 2024) in Section 5.4.1 Verifiable Audits