SECSEC-001 — Model Security Vulnerabilities
Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems: Accountability and Escalation Risk
5/5Sector: DefenceGeography: GlobalStage: OperateIngested: —
Executive Summary
Autonomous weapons that select and engage targets without human intervention create unresolved accountability gaps and material risk of unintended escalation. Boards in the defence sector face urgent governance exposure where no established legal or ethical framework yet assigns liability for autonomous lethal decisions.
Domain
Security & Privacy
Blindspots in model security, data poisoning, privacy leakage, infrastructure, model theft, and incident response.
Source
MIT AI Risk Repository — Artificial Intelligence Trust, Risk and Security Management (AI TRiSM): Frameworks, Applications, Challenges and Future Research Directions (Habbal2024) ↗https://airisk.mit.edu/
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