May 20, 2025 Responsibility & Safety Advancing Gemini's security safeguards Google DeepMind Security & Privacy Research Team Imagine asking your AI agent to summarize your latest emails — a seemingly straightforward task. …
… This is especially important because access to model weights allows removal of most safeguards. Given the stakes involved as we look ahead to increasingly powerful AI, getting this wrong could have serious implications for safety and security. …
… Understanding AI Control Our approach to security starts with a strong foundation, incorporating traditional safeguards like sandboxing, endpoint security, and prompt injection resistance. …
… We partner closely with in-house biologists, security experts and external partners to understand potential threats, test our models against them and build in robust safeguards. …
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… On autonomy, cybersecurity, and biosecurity, our primary goal is to assess the degree to which threat actors could use a model with advanced capabilities to carry out harmful activities with severe consequences. …