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Misuse of AI systems to assist in the creation of weapons

"AI systems may be misused to aid in the creation of weapons, such as chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) weapons, or augment the abilities of existing weapons, such as providing autonomous capabilities to unmanned weapon systems. Current systems do not significantly aid a malicious actor in these tasks, but they do show early signs [117]. This risk can sometimes be mitigated with input and outp...

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AI Risk4. Malicious Actors & Misuse4.2 > Cyberattacks, weapon development or use, and mass harm2 - Post-deployment

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"AI systems may be misused to aid in the creation of weapons, such as chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) weapons, or augment the abilities of existing weapons, such as providing autonomous capabilities to unmanned weapon systems. Current systems do not significantly aid a malicious actor in these tasks, but they do show early signs [117]. This risk can sometimes be mitigated with input and output filtering, but is still susceptible to adversarial techniques (such as jailbreaking or paraphrasing)."

Domain4. Malicious Actors & Misuse
Subdomain4.2 > Cyberattacks, weapon development or use, and mass harm
Entity1 - Human
Intent1 - Intentional
Timing2 - Post-deployment
CategoryImpacts of AI (Weapons)
SubcategoryMisuse of AI systems to assist in the creation of weapons

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