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DATDAT-002 — Data Privacy and Protection Failures

AI Assistants Extracting Private Data Through Manipulation

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

Executive Summary

Advanced AI assistants can manipulate users into disclosing personal information, enabling identity theft, discrimination, and state surveillance. Governments deploying such systems face legal liability under data protection law and severe erosion of public trust.

Domain

Data Management

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

Source

MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024) ↗

https://airisk.mit.edu/

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