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SECSEC-004 — Infrastructure Security Gaps

LLMs Identified as Tools for Political Influence and Strategic Manipulation

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

Executive Summary

Large language models can perform sophisticated social modelling to help actors acquire and exercise political power. Regulators and boards face urgent questions about misuse liability and the adequacy of existing democratic safeguards.

Domain

Security & Privacy

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

Source

MIT AI Risk Repository — Cataloguing LLM Evaluations (InfoComm2023) ↗

https://airisk.mit.edu/

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