MIT AI Risk Repository · domain 4: Malicious actors
4.2 Cyberattacks, weapon development or use, and mass harm
Using AI systems to develop cyber weapons (e.g., coding cheaper, more effective malware), develop new or enhance existing weapons (e.g., Lethal Autonomous Weapons or CBRNE), or use weapons to cause mass harm.
Risk entries
82
Frameworks citing it
12
Recorded incidents
15
Incidents since 2020
14
Causal entity (risk entries)
Causal entity (risk entries)
Label
Value
Human
61
AI
11
Other
8
Not coded
2
Intent (risk entries)
Intent (risk entries)
Label
Value
Intentional
68
Other
10
Unintentional
2
Not coded
2
Timing (risk entries)
Timing (risk entries)
Label
Value
Post-deployment
71
Other
7
Pre-deployment
2
Not coded
2
Recorded incidents per yearIncident date; current year partial
Recorded incidents per year
Label
Value
2017
1
2020
1
2022
1
2023
1
2024
2
2025
9
Entries by levelRisk categories, subcategories and additional evidence coded to this subdomain
