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SECSEC-004 — Infrastructure Security Gaps

AI Surveillance Enabling Global Totalitarian Control

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

Executive Summary

General-purpose AI systems provide authoritarian regimes with scalable tools for population surveillance and behavioural manipulation. Boards face regulatory, reputational, and supply-chain exposure if AI products or investments are linked to such deployments.

Domain

Security & Privacy

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

Source

MIT AI Risk Repository — A Taxonomy of Systemic Risks from General-Purpose AI (Uuk2025) ↗

https://airisk.mit.edu/

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