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SECSEC-001 — Model Security Vulnerabilities

Autonomous AI Agents Pursuing Dangerous or Malicious Goals

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

Executive Summary

AI agents designed or repurposed to pursue harmful objectives pose systemic risks beyond current containment frameworks. Regulators and boards face urgent accountability gaps where no clear liability chain exists for autonomous AI-driven harm.

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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