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The Small English Town Swept Up in the Global AI Arms Race
The residents of Potters Bar are working to protect the "green belt" of farms, forests, and meadows that surround London from the endless demand for AI infrastructure. A short drive from London, the town of Potters Bar is separated from the village of South Mimms by 85 acres of rolling farmland segmented by a scribble of hedgerows. In one of the fields, a lone oak serves as a rest stop along a public footpath. Lately, the tree has become a site of protest, too. A poster tied to its trunk reads: "NO TO DATA CENTRE."
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Table 3 presents comprehensive details of the TrojAI dataset. PICCOLO is a backdoor scanning tool aiming at detecting whether a language model is backdoored. It cannot reverse engineer exact triggers but optimizes a list of surrogate triggers that can induce ASR. The surrogate triggers by PICCOLO cannot be directly used. Table 4 documents the optimal prompts identified via fuzzing for each model.