MIT AI Risk Repository · Risk Sub-Category · 65.08.01

Data poisoning

Category: Training Data Risks (Robustness)

Description

"A type of adversarial attack where an adversary or malicious insider injects intentionally corrupted, false, misleading, or incorrect samples into the training or fine-tuning datasets."

From AI Risk Atlas (IBM2025), 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.

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