MIT AI Risk Repository · Risk Sub-Category · 58.06.11

Privacy loss

Category: Human rights and civil liberties

Description

"Privacy loss - Unwarranted exposure of an individual’s private life or personal data through cyberattacks, doxxing, etc."

From A Collaborative, Human-Centred Taxonomy of AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Harms (Abercrombie2024), as extracted by the MIT AI Risk Repository (CC BY 4.0).

Classification

Causal entity
Human

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.

Real-world incidents in this subdomain

Browse all incidents in this subdomain

How other frameworks describe this risk

Other entries from Abercrombie2024