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6. Socioeconomic and Environmental2 - Post-deployment

Intellectual Property

This category addresses responses that may violate, or directly encourage others to violate, the intellectual property rights (i.e., copyrights, trademarks, or patents) of any third party.

Source: MIT AI Risk Repositorymit363

ENTITY

2 - AI

INTENT

3 - Other

TIMING

2 - Post-deployment

Risk ID

mit363

Domain lineage

6. Socioeconomic and Environmental

262 mapped risks

6.3 > Economic and cultural devaluation of human effort

Mitigation strategy

1. Establish a robust AI governance framework, including clear, cross-functional internal policies and mandatory employee training on acceptable use to prevent unauthorized disclosure of trade secrets and to ensure compliance with third-party IP rights and licensing agreements. 2. Conduct mandatory, systematic Intellectual Property (IP) audits and Freedom-to-Operate (FTO) searches prior to new product launches or AI system deployment to proactively identify and mitigate infringement risks, including evaluating the copyright compliance of AI model training data and outputs. 3. Implement continuous monitoring and enforcement mechanisms, utilizing advanced AI-driven systems to track the organization's IP assets against infringement in the competitive and digital landscape, and deploy input/output filtering to prevent the unintentional generation or disclosure of IP-protected content.