Access Control for AI Model Deployment Platforms

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In order to implement access control for AI Model Deployment Platforms, we will focus on creating and configuring IAM (Identity and Access Management) resources that determine who can access the deployed AI model and what operations they are authorized to perform.

For the context of this explanation, we'll look at how to use Pulumi to manage access control using Google Cloud Platform's (GCP) AI Platform and Azure Machine Learning Service as examples. Both platforms offer mechanisms to control access to deployed models via IAM policies.

In GCP, we can use `ModelIamPolicy` to define the policy for a specific AI model. It allows us to attach roles and members to a model which can be service accounts, groups, or users. In Azure, we can modify `Model Versions` or `Workspaces` to manage access to the models.

Below is a program in Pulumi using Python which demonstrates how to set up IAM policies for an AI model in Google Cloud Platform:

```python
import pulumi
import pulumi_google_native as google_native

# Set up GCP configuration
config = pulumi.Config("google-native")
project = config.require("project")
model_id = "your-model-id"  # Replace with your model ID

# Define IAM Policy for the GCP AI Platform model
model_iam_policy = google_native.ml.v1.ModelIamPolicy(f"{model_id}-iampolicy",
    modelId=model_id,
    project=project,
    bindings=[{
        "role": "roles/ml.developer",  # Example role
        "members": [
            "user:user@example.com",  # Example user
        ],
    }],
    etag="abc123",  # Replace with the etag value obtained from the model
    version=1)

# An optional Pulumi export to output the managed IAM policy.
pulumi.export("model_iam_policy_id", model_iam_policy.id)
```

This program sets up a simple IAM policy for a GCP AI Platform model, where a specific user is granted the 'roles/ml.developer' role, allowing them to interact with the model as defined by that role's permissions.

Remember to replace `'your-model-id'` with the actual ID of your AI model and `'user:user@example.com'` with the email address of the user you want to grant access to. The `etag` value must be obtained from the current IAM policy of the model, which is used for concurrency control.

For Azure Machine Learning, you would use the Azure Native Pulumi package, but the process is similar: you define the resources that represent the machine learning model and then apply an appropriate role to a user or service principal.

As you get more comfortable with Pulumi, you'll begin to explore further options like dynamically fetching resource attributes, setting conditional IAM policies, and combining multiple cloud services to build robust machine learning deployment platforms.