MIT AI Risk Repository · Risk Sub-Category · 30.02.06

Privacy Violation

Category: Safety

Description

machine learning models are known to be vulnerable to data privacy attacks, i.e. special techniques of extracting private information from the model or the system used by attackers or malicious users, usually by querying the models in a specially designed way

From Trustworthy LLMs: A Survey and Guideline for Evaluating Large Language Models’ Alignment (Liu2024), as extracted by the MIT AI Risk Repository (CC BY 4.0).

Classification

Causal entity
AI

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)

Other entries from Liu2024