MIT AI Risk Repository · Risk Sub-Category · 65.09.02

Extraction attack

Category: Inference risks (Robustness)

Description

"An attribute inference attack is used to detect whether certain sensitive features can be inferred about individuals who participated in training a model. These attacks occur when an adversary has some prior knowledge about the training data and uses that knowledge to infer the sensitive data."

From AI Risk Atlas (IBM2025), as extracted by the MIT AI Risk Repository (CC BY 4.0).

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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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