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Chowdhury: White House-sponsored DEF CON AI red teaming drew 2,200 participants

Dr. Ruman Chowdhury · AI + You: 5 ways to ethically build — and use — AI | Masters of Scale · Oct 31, 2023 · at 34:08

Dr. Ruman Chowdhury, CEO of Humane Intelligence, describes organizing the White House-backed generative AI red teaming challenge at DEF CON in August 2023.

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“The White House sponsored it. We had actually people from all over the world there. So this is the largest ever generative AI red teaming exercise. This is every major large language model company, eight different companies in this. We had 2200 people show up, and its size and scale and scope was just something very special and unique.”

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The claim, plainly

Dr. Ruman Chowdhury asserts that the August 2023 generative AI red teaming exercise at DEF CON was sponsored by the White House, included eight major LLM companies, and had 2,200 participants.

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Assessment

All three components of Dr. Ruman Chowdhury's statement are corroborated by official documentation from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), DEF CON 31/AI Village, and Humane Intelligence's official records. First, the White House announced and formally collaborated on/sponsored the Generative Red Teaming Challenge at DEF CON 31 in August 2023 as an operationalization of the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights. Second, models were provided by eight major AI/LLM developers: Anthropic, Cohere, Google, Hugging Face, Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, and Stability AI. Third, official post-event records confirm that 2,244 individuals participated in the exercise, matching the approximate figure of 2,200.

White House OSTP announcements (May 4, 2023, and August 29, 2023) confirmed administration support and collaboration for the DEF CON 31 red-teaming exercise.
Humane Intelligence and AI Village records confirmed participation from eight model developers: Anthropic, Cohere, Google, Hugging Face, Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, and Stability AI.
Official Humane Intelligence documentation recorded exactly 2,244 participants evaluating the models during DEF CON 31.

Checked against

[1] georgetown.edu [2] scribd.com [3] scribd.com [4] ntia.gov [5] humane-intelligence.org [6] youtube.com [7] aivillage.org [8] credo.ai

Humane Intelligence DEF CON 31 Generative Red Teaming Challenge report 8 companies models 2200 DEF CON 31 AI Village Generative Red Teaming Challenge transparency report White house fact sheet DEF CON AI Village red teaming August 2023 Anthropic Google OpenAI "AI Village" "DEF CON 31" "White House" "May 4, 2023" fact sheet DEF CON 31 Generative AI red teaming White House OSTP Humane Intelligence 2200 participants "eight LLMs" OR "8 LLMs" DEFCON 31 "Humane Intelligence" Anthropic Cohere Google Hugging Meta NVIDIA OpenAI Stability "Red-Teaming Large Language Models to Identify Novel AI Risks" whitehouse.gov

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