Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu has raised alarms related to the growing use of frontier AI models by firms handling sensitive information. Quoting Fields Medalist Terence Tao, Sridhar Vembu shared a post on X saying that companies with critical know-how, intellectual property, and trade secrets should be careful about trusting their information with frontier AI labs. The mathematician warned that artificial intelligence could change how researchers share ideas. Tao also said, “The incentives may now be pointing in the direction of no longer sharing any promising research directions with the broader community, which would reverse centuries of traditions of open science and do serious long-term damage to the future of the field.” Sridhar Vembu said firms with valuable intellectual property and trade secrets should be cautious about putting their information into frontier systems. He said, “This is quite serious and it is not just mathematicians and scientists.” He also argued that the concern could apply to firms across industries that have sensitive information they do not want to expose outside their companies. In the post, Vembu also threw light on the pharmaceutical industry as an example. He said major pharma firms already have their own AI models, often based on open-source models, to avoid giving large AI companies information about new drug molecules and processes they are developing. Vembu further said that caution is well warranted. He said, “Your company’s know-how belongs in your own AI model. Fortunately, they are easy to train and becoming cheaper to run too.” And to an extent, everything said by Vembu is on point because if companies that deal with sensitive information want to use AI, then they should stick to making their own instead of relying on third-party sources. That way, the data will remain safe, and the models can be trained specifically for the type of data a company possesses. A career journalist who spent six years playing around with smartphones, apps and gaming. As a hobby, Rudra enjoys researching mobile games, watching ... View More