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  1. 46.02.02 · Risk Sub-Category

    Financial and Economic Damage

    Propaganda - Extremist schemes

  2. "The distortion of the information ecosystem, including the spread of misinformation, fake news, and other forms of deceptive content [28], is categorized as “Information Manipulation.”"

    From GenAI against humanity: nefarious applications of generative artificial intelligence and large language models (Ferrara2023)

  3. 46.03.01 · Risk Sub-Category

    Information Manipulation

    Deception - Information control

  4. 46.03.02 · Risk Sub-Category

    Information Manipulation

    Propaganda - Influence campaigns

  5. 46.03.03 · Risk Sub-Category

    Information Manipulation

    Dishonesty - Information disorder

  6. "Lastly, broader harms that can impact communities, societal structures, and critical infrastructures, including threats to democratic processes, social cohesion, and technological systems, are captured under “Societal, Socio-technical, and Infrastructural Damage.”"

    From GenAI against humanity: nefarious applications of generative artificial intelligence and large language models (Ferrara2023)

  7. 46.04.02 · Risk Sub-Category

    Socio-technical and Infrastructural

    Propaganda - Synthetic realities

  8. 46.04.03 · Risk Sub-Category

    Socio-technical and Infrastructural

    Dishonesty - Targeted surveillance

  9. 46.01.01 · Risk Sub-Category

    Personal Loss and Identity Theft

    Deception - Synthetic identities

    "GenAI can produce images of people that look very real, as if they could be seen on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or Tinder. Although these individuals do not exist in reality, these synthetic identities are already being used in malicious activities (see Table 1D)."

    From GenAI against humanity: nefarious applications of generative artificial intelligence and large language models (Ferrara2023)

  10. 46.01.02 · Risk Sub-Category

    Personal Loss and Identity Theft

    Propaganda - Digital impersonations

    "AI-generated impersonation for identity theft might be found at the intersection of “Harm to the Person” and “Deception.”"

    From GenAI against humanity: nefarious applications of generative artificial intelligence and large language models (Ferrara2023)

  11. 46.01.03 · Risk Sub-Category

    Personal Loss and Identity Theft

    Dishonesty - Targeted harassment

    "LLMs can be deployed to target individuals online, sending them personalized and harmful messages at scale"

    From GenAI against humanity: nefarious applications of generative artificial intelligence and large language models (Ferrara2023)

  12. "Then, we have the potential for financial loss, fraud, market manipulation, and other economic harms, which fall under “Financial and Economic Damage.”

    From GenAI against humanity: nefarious applications of generative artificial intelligence and large language models (Ferrara2023)

  13. 46.02.01 · Risk Sub-Category

    Financial and Economic Damage

    Deception - Bespoke ransom

  14. 46.02.03 · Risk Sub-Category

    Financial and Economic Damage

    Dishonesty - Market manipulation

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