MIT AI Risk Repository · Risk Category · 05.07.00

Security - Robustness

Description

While AI safety focuses on threats emanating from generative AI systems, security centers on threats posed to these systems. The most extensively discussed issue in this context are jailbreaking risks, which involve techniques like prompt injection or visual adversarial examples designed to circumvent safety guardrails governing model behavior. Sources delve into various jailbreaking methods, such as role play or reverse exposure. Similarly, implementing backdoors or using model poisoning techniques bypass safety guardrails as well. Other security concerns pertain to model or prompt thefts.

From Mapping the Ethics of Generative AI: A Comprehensive Scoping Review (Hagendorff2024), as extracted by the MIT AI Risk Repository (CC BY 4.0).

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Subdomain definition: Vulnerabilities in AI systems, software development toolchains, and hardware that can be exploited, resulting in unauthorized access, data and privacy breaches, or system manipulation causing unsafe outputs or behavior.

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