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MIT AI Risk Repository · Risk Sub-Category · 24.03.08

Adversarial AI: Data and Model Exfiltration Attacks

Category: Malicious Uses

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Description

"Other forms of abuse can include privacy attacks that allow adversaries to exfiltrate or gain knowledge of the private training data set or other valuable assets. For example, privacy attacks such as membership inference can allow an attacker to infer the specific private medical records that were used to train a medical AI diagnosis assistant. Another risk of abuse centers around attacks that target the intellectual property of the AI assistant through model extraction and distillation attacks that exploit the tension between API access and confidentiality in ML models. Without the proper mi

From The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024), as extracted by the MIT AI Risk Repository (CC BY 4.0).

Classification

Causal entity
Human

Subdomain definition: AI systems that memorize and leak sensitive personal data or infer private information about individuals without their consent. Unexpected or unauthorized sharing of data and information can compromise user expectation of privacy, assist identity theft, or loss of confidential intellectual property.

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How other frameworks describe this risk

  • Risks to privacy

    International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI (Bengio2024)

  • Risks to privacy

    International AI Safety Report 2025 (Bengio2025)

  • Privacy Leakage

    Risk Taxonomy, Mitigation, and Assessment Benchmarks of Large Language Model Systems (Cui2024)

  • Private Training Data

    Risk Taxonomy, Mitigation, and Assessment Benchmarks of Large Language Model Systems (Cui2024)

  • Memorization in LLMs

    Risk Taxonomy, Mitigation, and Assessment Benchmarks of Large Language Model Systems (Cui2024)

  • Association in LLMs

    Risk Taxonomy, Mitigation, and Assessment Benchmarks of Large Language Model Systems (Cui2024)

  • Privacy Leakage

    Risk Taxonomy, Mitigation, and Assessment Benchmarks of Large Language Model Systems (Cui2024)

  • Privacy and regulation violations

    Navigating the Landscape of AI Ethics and Responsibility (Cunha2023)

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