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SECSEC-002 — Data Poisoning Attack Risks

AI Systems Develop Unanticipated Capabilities After Deployment

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

Executive Summary

AI models can spontaneously acquire capabilities their designers never intended, remaining undetected until live deployment. Boards face material liability where hazardous emergent behaviours surface post-release and cannot be reversed.

Domain

Security & Privacy

Blindspots in model security, data poisoning, privacy leakage, infrastructure, model theft, and incident response.

Source

MIT AI Risk Repository — X-Risk Analysis for AI Research (Hendrycks2022) ↗

https://airisk.mit.edu/

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