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Personal Loss and Identity Theft

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Description

"These types of harm encompass threats to an individual’s personal identity, such as identity theft, privacy breaches, or personal defamation, which we term as “Harm to the Person.”"

From GenAI against humanity: nefarious applications of generative artificial intelligence and large language models (Ferrara2023), as extracted by the MIT AI Risk Repository (CC BY 4.0).

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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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