SECSEC-004 — Infrastructure Security Gaps
AI-Enabled Authoritarian Surveillance and Citizen Targeting
4/5Sector: GovernmentGeography: GlobalStage: OperateIngested: —
Executive Summary
Advanced AI assistants with multimodal and data-harvesting capabilities enable authoritarian regimes to dramatically scale repressive surveillance and behavioural manipulation of citizens. Governments and boards face acute governance exposure as commercial personal data ecosystems become weaponised by state and non-state actors with few technical or policy barriers in place.
Domain
Security & Privacy
Blindspots in model security, data poisoning, privacy leakage, infrastructure, model theft, and incident response.
Source
MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024) ↗https://airisk.mit.edu/
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