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đŻ Adversarial Attacks
Malicious inputs crafted to fool AI models into incorrect predictions.
Example: Researchers trick a self-driving car's vision system by placing stickers on a stop sign, causing it to interpret it as a speed limit sign.
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â ïž Data Poisoning
Attackers manipulate training data to insert bias or vulnerabilities into AI systems.
Example: A facial recognition dataset is poisoned with mislabeled images, resulting in the AI misidentifying people of specific ethnicities at higher rates.
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đ”ïž Model Inversion & Theft
Reverse-engineering models to extract sensitive training data or replicate proprietary AI systems.
Example: An attacker uses API queries to infer whether a medical AI was trained on a specific patient's data, breaching privacy laws like HIPAA.
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đŹ Prompt Injection & Jailbreaking
Manipulating LLM prompts or context to force unintended behavior or outputs.
Example: A user embeds a malicious prompt in a shared file, causing a corporate AI assistant to leak sensitive company data or execute unintended commands.
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đ Synthetic Media & Deepfakes
AI-generated content used for misinformation, impersonation, or fraud.
Example: A voice deepfake of a CEO is used in a phone call to convince the finance department to transfer funds to a fraudulent account.
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đŠč AI-Augmented Cybercrime
Use of AI to automate and scale phishing, malware generation, and intrusion strategies.
Example: An AI generates personalized phishing emails based on scraped LinkedIn data, increasing the success rate of ransomware attacks.
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đ Autonomous Weaponization
Use of AI in lethal autonomous weapons or in military decision-making without human oversight.
Example: A drone operating under autonomous control mistakenly targets a civilian vehicle due to misclassification of visual data in a conflict zone.
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đŻ Misalignment & Loss of Oversight
AI systems pursue goals that deviate from human intent due to vague or poorly specified objectives.
Example: A content moderation AI aggressively bans valid user content to optimize for "least controversy," leading to censorship and bias.
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đ Supply Chain Vulnerabilities
Insertion of compromised models, poisoned datasets, or backdoors during third-party development.
Example: An open-source AI model embedded with a hidden backdoor is widely adopted in financial trading bots, exposing global markets to coordinated manipulation.
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đ Societal Disruption & Displacement
Widespread AI adoption displaces jobs, exacerbates inequality, and overwhelms regulatory frameworks.
Example: Mass layoffs occur in customer service and legal review sectors as generative AI tools outperform entry-level workers, leaving communities economically destabilized.
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BONUS RISK: Systemic Over-Reliance
Description: AI decision-making is increasingly trusted in high-stakes domains (finance, healthcare, defense) without robust fallback systems.
Example: A hospital's triage system denies care to a patient due to a biased algorithm trained on historical underrepresented data, resulting in malpractice.