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SECSEC-001 — Model Security Vulnerabilities

Frontier AI Enables Dual-Use Biological and Chemical Weapons Development

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

Executive Summary

Frontier AI systems capable of accelerating life-sciences research present a credible risk of lowering barriers to biological and chemical weapons creation. Defence and security sectors face urgent governance obligations to assess AI procurement and deployment against dual-use proliferation standards.

Domain

Security & Privacy

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

Source

MIT AI Risk Repository — Capabilities and Risks from Frontier AI (DSIT2023) ↗

https://airisk.mit.edu/

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