MIT AI Risk Repository · Risk Sub-Category · 45.01.04

Risks from models and algorithms (Risks of stealing and tampering)

Category: AI's inherent safety risks

Description

"Core algorithm information, including parameters, structures, and functions, faces risks of inversion attacks, stealing, modification, and even backdoor injection, which can lead to infringement of intellectual property rights (IPR) and leakage of business secrets. It can also lead to unreliable inference, wrong decision output, and even operational failures."

From AI Safety Governance Framework (TC2602024), 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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