SECSEC-004 — Infrastructure Security Gaps
AI Persuasion Tools Exploited to Spread Harmful Ideologies and Capture Influence
4/5Sector: OtherGeography: USAStage: OperateIngested: —
Executive Summary
Advanced AI systems can tailor communications to manipulate individuals at scale, enabling self-interested actors to spread harmful ideologies or seize disproportionate societal influence. Boards face regulatory and reputational exposure if such tools are deployed without governance controls over intent, targeting, and content boundaries.
Domain
Security & Privacy
Blindspots in model security, data poisoning, privacy leakage, infrastructure, model theft, and incident response.
Source
MIT AI Risk Repository — A Survey of the Potential Long-term Impacts of AI: How AI Could Lead to Long-term Changes in Science, Cooperation, Power, Epistemics and Values (Clarke2023) ↗https://airisk.mit.edu/
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