SECSEC-001 — Model Security Vulnerabilities
State-Deployed AI Weapons Risk Unprecedented Civilian Casualties at Scale
5/5Sector: DefenceGeography: GlobalStage: OperateIngested: —
Executive Summary
Autonomous weapons systems developed by capable states sit technologically close to mass-casualty drone deployment, with conflict escalation removing meaningful human oversight. Boards in the defence sector face acute governance exposure as legal, reputational, and regulatory frameworks struggle to keep pace with operational reality.
Domain
Security & Privacy
Blindspots in model security, data poisoning, privacy leakage, infrastructure, model theft, and incident response.
Source
MIT AI Risk Repository — TASRA: a Taxonomy and Analysis of Societal-Scale Risks from AI (Critch2023) ↗https://airisk.mit.edu/
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