SECSEC-001 — Model Security Vulnerabilities
AI Accelerates Development of Weapons Capable of Mass Destruction
4/5Sector: DefenceGeography: GlobalStage: OperateIngested: —
Executive Summary
AI systems are actively lowering barriers to the creation of mass-casualty weapons, including autonomous lethal systems and engineered biological agents. Boards in the defence sector face urgent obligations to assess dual-use AI risks within supply chains and research programmes before regulatory intervention forces compliance.
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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