A Byzantine Fault Tolerance Approach towards AI Safety
arXiv:2504.14668 · doi:10.1109/ICDLT66400.2025.11466516
Abstract
Ensuring that an AI system behaves reliably and as intended, especially in the presence of unexpected faults or adversarial conditions, is a complex challenge. Inspired by the field of Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) from distributed computing, we explore a fault tolerance architecture for AI safety. By drawing an analogy between unreliable, corrupt, misbehaving or malicious AI artifacts and Byzantine nodes in a distributed system, we propose an architecture that leverages consensus mechanisms to enhance AI safety and reliability.
14 pages