MIT AI Risk Repository · Risk Sub-Category · 62.15.01
Training-related (Robustness certificates can be exploited to attack the models)
Category: Model Development
Description
"The knowledge of robustness certificates, including the area of the region for which model predictions are certified to be robust, can be used by an adversary to efficiently craft attacks that succeed just outside the certified regions [53]."
From Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems (Gipiškis2024), as extracted by the MIT AI Risk Repository (CC BY 4.0).
Classification
- Domain
- 2. Privacy & Security
- Causal entity
- Human
- Intent
- Intentional
- Timing
- Other
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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