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1. 73.03.04 · Risk Sub-Category

   Dual-Use Capabilities Enable Malicious Use and Misuse of LLMs

   Warfare and Physical Harm

   "The use of AI in warfare is highly alarming and may pose dangers to human safety (Hendrycks et al., 2023). Autonomous drone warfare is being aggressively pursued as a tactic in the current war in Ukraine (Meaker, 2023), and may already have been used on human targets (Hambling, 2023). The use of AI- based facial recognition has been documented in the targeting of Palestinians in Gaza (International, 2023). LLMs have already been productized in limited ways for the purposes of warfare planning (Tarantola, 2023). Furthermore, active research is being carried out to develop multimodal-LLMs that

   From Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models (Anwar2024)

   Domain 4 4.2 Human Intentional Post-deployment

2. 73.03.05 · Risk Sub-Category

   Dual-Use Capabilities Enable Malicious Use and Misuse of LLMs

   Hazardous Biological and Chemical Technologies

   "AI systems such as LLMs, chemical LLMs (Skinnider et al., 2021; Moret et al., 2023), and other LLM- based biological design tools might soon facilitate the production of bioweapons, chemical weapons, and other hazardous technologies. In particular, LLMs might enable actors with less expertise to more easily synthesize dangerous pathogens, while customized chemical and biological design tools might be more concerning in terms of expanding the capabilities of sophisticated actors (e.g. states) (Sandbrink, 2023). Gopal et al. (2023) and Soice et al. (2023) demonstrated that people with little ba

   From Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models (Anwar2024)

   Domain 4 4.2 Human Intentional Post-deployment

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