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AI705
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AI705 Gap Analysis for Frontier AI Facilities

Technical guidance for applying ICD 705 and IC Tech Spec requirements against weight theft, secret theft, and sabotage.

About this project

A shared reference for applying ICD 705 to frontier AI facilities.

Security Level 5 is a security posture for AI systems that could plausibly thwart top-priority operations by the world's most cyber-capable institutions. AI705 focuses on one long-lead part of that posture: how classified-facility standards should be interpreted for frontier AI datacenters and model-weight operations.

ICD 705 and the IC Tech Spec were written for Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities. Frontier AI labs, colocations, and dedicated datacenter operators are now asking how that body of practice should apply to non-classified but extremely high-value assets, facility secrets, and sabotage-sensitive infrastructure.

AI705 is a requirement-by-requirement gap analysis. It identifies which facility requirements apply as written, which need modification, which do not apply, and where new controls or measurement campaigns are needed.

Theory of change

Concrete guidance reduces improvisation at the facility boundary.

If facilities teams, colo providers, and accrediting officials can evaluate frontier AI environments against a shared AI705 reference, they can design and review physically secure AI infrastructure more consistently. That shared baseline is especially valuable where the original SCIF framing does not directly address accelerator racks, liquid cooling, shared datacenter services, model-serving operations, sabotage paths, or AI-specific side-channel concerns.