SECSEC-004 — Infrastructure Security Gaps
AI Assistants as Authoritarian Surveillance and Censorship Tools
4/5Sector: TechnologyGeography: GlobalStage: OperateIngested: —
Executive Summary
Advanced AI assistants, combined with pervasive IoT data collection, enable malicious actors to identify, target, and coerce citizens at scale. Boards face regulatory and reputational exposure where their AI products or supply chains contribute to authoritarian surveillance infrastructure.
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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