Taiwan Bans DeepSeek AI Platform Over Security Concerns
Government Agencies Prohibited from Using Chinese Startup’s Artificial Intelligence Platform
Taiwan has become the latest country to ban government agencies from using Chinese startup DeepSeek’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform, citing security risks.
Statement from Taiwan’s Ministry of Digital Affairs
According to a statement released by Taiwan’s Ministry of Digital Affairs, government agencies and critical infrastructure should not use DeepSeek, because it endangers national information security.
Similar Bans in Other Countries
D…a, and Russia have attempted to use Gemini to enable and scale their operations.
Threat Actors’ Attempts to Bypass Safety and Ethical Controls
Threat actors have also been observed attempting to jailbreak AI models in an effort to bypass their safety and ethical controls. A kind of adversarial attack, it’s designed to induce a model into producing an output that it has been explicitly trained not to, such as creating malware or spelling out instructions for making a bomb.
New Defense Against Universal Jailbreaks
The ongoing concerns posed by jailbreak attacks have led AI company Anthropic to devise a new line of defense called Constitutional Classifiers that it says can safeguard models against universal jailbreaks.
How Constitutional Classifiers Work
These Constitutional Classifiers are input and output classifiers trained on synthetically generated data that filter the overwhelming majority of jailbreaks with minimal over-refusals and without incurring a large compute overhead, according to the company.
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