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DATDAT-002 — Data Privacy and Protection Failures

Generative AI Systems Producing Hazardous Biohazard and Security-Threat Information

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

Executive Summary

Generative AI models have demonstrated capacity to produce or accurately infer dangerous information, including novel biohazard creation instructions. Boards face direct liability and regulatory exposure where AI deployment lacks robust content controls and red-team safety evaluation.

Domain

Data Management

Blindspots in data quality, privacy, bias, lineage, lifecycle, and third-party data dependencies.

Source

MIT AI Risk Repository — Sociotechnical Safety Evaluation of Generative AI Systems (Weidinger2023) ↗

https://airisk.mit.edu/

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