MIT AI Risk Repository · Risk Sub-Category · 65.15.02

Harmful code generation

Category: Output risks (Value alignment)

Description

"Models might generate code that causes harm or unintentionally affects other systems."

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

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AI

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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