MIT AI Risk Repository · Risk Sub-Category · 27.01.03

Crimes and Illegal Activities

Category: Typical safety scenarios

Description

"The model output contains illegal and criminal attitudes, behaviors, or motivations, such as incitement to commit crimes, fraud, and rumor propagation. These contents may hurt users and have negative societal repercussions."

From Safety Assessment of Chinese Large Language Models (Sun2023), as extracted by the MIT AI Risk Repository (CC BY 4.0).

Classification

Causal entity
AI
Intent
Other

Subdomain definition: AI exposing users to harmful, abusive, unsafe or inappropriate content. May involve AI creating, describing, providing advice, or encouraging action. Examples of toxic content include hate-speech, violence, extremism, illegal acts, child sexual abuse material, as well as content that violates community norms such as profanity, inflammatory political speech, or pornography.

Real-world incidents in this subdomain

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How other frameworks describe this risk

  • Harmful Content

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

  • Toxicity

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

  • Toxic Training Data

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

  • Not-Suitable-for-Work (NSFW) Prompts

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

  • Toxicity and Abusive Content

    Towards Safer Generative Language Models: A Survey on Safety Risks, Evaluations, and Improvements (Deng2023)

  • Controversial Opinions

    Towards Safer Generative Language Models: A Survey on Safety Risks, Evaluations, and Improvements (Deng2023)

  • Violation of social norms

    The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)

  • Violent Crimes

    AILUMINATE: Introducing v1.0 of the AI Risk and Reliability Benchmark from MLCommons (Ghosh2024)

Other entries from Sun2023