Dual-use nature
AI’s potential for both beneficial and harmful applications complicates efforts to manage its societal impacts effectively.
ENTITY
3 - Other
INTENT
2 - Unintentional
TIMING
2 - Post-deployment
Risk ID
mit1065
Domain lineage
4. Malicious Actors & Misuse
4.0 > Malicious use
Mitigation strategy
1. Implement a comprehensive, multi-layered evaluation framework, such as the Benchmark and Red team AI Capability Evaluation (BRACE) Framework, to proactively assess dual-use capabilities for both intentional abuse and unintentional harm throughout the development lifecycle and pre-deployment. 2. Establish robust, continuous monitoring and adaptive mitigation systems post-deployment to detect, analyze, and respond to misuse incidents, ensuring the efficacy of counter-misuse practices is regularly assessed and refined to close performance gaps. 3. Apply proportional security and access controls to protect the model from unauthorized access, theft, or tampering, concurrently providing appropriate transparency and disclosure regarding misuse risk management practices to external stakeholders and the broader AI supply chain.