SECSEC-001 — Model Security Vulnerabilities
Advanced AI Enabling Catastrophic Malicious Use in Defence and Security Contexts
5/5Sector: DefenceGeography: GlobalStage: OperateIngested: —
Executive Summary
Advanced AI systems risk being weaponised by malicious actors to engineer biochemical threats, deploy autonomous rogue systems, and conduct mass influence operations at catastrophic scale. Boards face material exposure through regulatory scrutiny, reputational liability, and potential complicity in irreversible societal harms if governance controls are absent.
Domain
Security & Privacy
Blindspots in model security, data poisoning, privacy leakage, infrastructure, model theft, and incident response.
Source
MIT AI Risk Repository — An Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks (Hendrycks2023) ↗https://airisk.mit.edu/
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