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SECSEC-004 — Infrastructure Security Gaps

AI Surveillance Tools Misused for Population Monitoring and Control

4/5Sector: OtherGeography: GlobalStage: OperateIngested: —

Executive Summary

General-purpose AI systems enable institutional actors to conduct mass data collection and automated analysis for suppressing individuals. Boards face regulatory and reputational exposure where AI deployments lack governance controls preventing surveillance misuse.

Domain

Security & Privacy

Blindspots in model security, data poisoning, privacy leakage, infrastructure, model theft, and incident response.

Source

MIT AI Risk Repository — Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems (Gipiškis2024) ↗

https://airisk.mit.edu/

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