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1. 73.03.01 · Risk Sub-Category

   Dual-Use Capabilities Enable Malicious Use and Misuse of LLMs

   Misinformation and Manipulation

   "Recent studies have demonstrated that LLMs can be exploited to craft deceptive narratives with levels of persuasiveness similar to human-generated content (Pan et al., 2023b; Spitale et al., 2023), to fabri- cate fake news (Zellers et al., 2019; Zhou et al., 2023f), and to devise automated influence operations aimed at manipulating the perspectives of targeted audiences (Goldstein et al., 2023). LLMs have also been found to be used in malicious social botnets (Yang and Menczer, 2023), powering automated accounts used to disseminate coordinated messages. More broadly, the use of LLMs for the d

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

   Domain 4 4.3 Human Intentional Post-deployment

2. 73.03.02 · Risk Sub-Category

   Dual-Use Capabilities Enable Malicious Use and Misuse of LLMs

   Cybersecurity

   "LLMs may exacerbate cybersecurity risks in various ways (Newman, 2024). Firstly, LLMs may significantly amplify the effectiveness of deceptive operations aimed at tricking people into disclosing sensitive information or granting adversary access to critical resources. For example, LLMs might prove highly effective at crafting personalized phishing emails or messages at scale that may be harder for an average user to recognize as phishing attempts (Karanjai, 2022; Hazell, 2023). In addition to being directly harmful to the targeted individual, such ‘social engineering’ attacks are often the ba

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

   Domain 4 4.3 Human Intentional Post-deployment

3. 73.03.06 · Risk Sub-Category

   Dual-Use Capabilities Enable Malicious Use and Misuse of LLMs

   Domain-Specific Misuses

   "Improvements in LLMs may exert greater pressure to apply LLMs to various domains, such as health and education (Eloundou et al., 2023). Crude efforts to use LLMs in such domains, however, may incur harm and should be discouraged strongly. In particular, it is important to guard against different ways in which LLMs may be misused within any domain. One famous episode of misuse within the health sector is a mental health non-profit experimenting LLM-based therapy on its users without their informed consent (Xiang, 2023a). Within the education sector, LLMs may be misused in various ways that mig

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

   Domain 4 4.3 Human Intentional Post-deployment

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