MIT AI Risk Repository · Risk Sub-Category · 65.09.03

Evasion attack

Category: Inference risks (Robustness)

Description

"Evasion attacks attempt to make a model output incorrect results by slightly perturbing the input data that is sent to the trained model."

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

Classification

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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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