MIT AI Risk Repository · Risk Sub-Category · 62.29.02
Democratizing access to dual-use technologies
Category: Impacts of AI (General)
Description
"Access to dual-use technologies can become easier because of GPAI model pro- liferation (in particular, open-source or open-weights models). Non-experts can use such dual-use-capable systems at a minimal cost [194, 100]. Improved model capabilities also contribute to dual-use risks posed by malicious actors. For example, an open-source base model for generating high quality sequence data can be modified to generate candidate protein sequences for toxin synthesis [29]."
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
- 4. Malicious actors
- Subdomain
- 4.0
- Causal entity
- Human
- Intent
- Other
- Timing
- Post-deployment