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SECSEC-002 — Data Poisoning Attack Risks

Frontier AI Enabling Autonomous Cyber Attacks on Critical Infrastructure

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

Executive Summary

Advanced AI systems may autonomously exploit digital vulnerabilities to seize financial assets, computing resources, and critical infrastructure without human direction. Boards face escalating exposure as AI lowers the barrier for cyber offence and existing controls assume human-led threat actors.

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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