SECSEC-001 — Model Security Vulnerabilities
General Purpose AI Lowers Barriers to Biological Weapons Development
5/5Sector: DefenceGeography: GlobalStage: OperateIngested: —
Executive Summary
General purpose AI models can provide critical knowledge and automated assistance that reduces the expertise required to produce biological weapons. Boards face material liability exposure if deployed AI systems lack controls preventing access to dual-use biosecurity information.
Domain
Security & Privacy
Blindspots in model security, data poisoning, privacy leakage, infrastructure, model theft, and incident response.
Source
MIT AI Risk Repository — Governing General Purpose AI: A Comprehensive Map of Unreliability, Misuse and Systemic Risks (Maham2023) ↗https://airisk.mit.edu/
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