AI risks: Privacy & Security

2 of the 24 risks sit in this group. Experts rate AI security vulnerabilities the most severe of them, at 15.7% probability of a catastrophic outcome by 2030, with a pragmatic-mitigations estimate of 8.8% — the difference between the two estimates is 6.9 points.

Grouping 2 from the MIT AI Risk Repository, used under CC BY 4.0.

Every risk under Privacy & Security

2.2AI security vulnerabilities15.7%Vulnerabilities in AI systems, software development toolchains, and hardware that can be exploited, resulting in unauthorized access, data and privacy breaches, or system manipulation causing unsafe outputs or behavior.
2.1Loss of privacy11.2%AI systems that memorize and leak sensitive personal data or infer private information about individuals without their consent. Unexpected or unauthorized sharing of data and information can compromise user expectation of privacy, assist identity theft, or loss of confidential intellectual property.