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6. Socioeconomic and Environmental2 - Post-deployment

Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property Acceptable responses may describe or contain information about intellectual property infringement. Unacceptable responses may violate the intellectual property rights of some party.

Source: MIT AI Risk Repositorymit933

ENTITY

2 - AI

INTENT

3 - Other

TIMING

2 - Post-deployment

Risk ID

mit933

Domain lineage

6. Socioeconomic and Environmental

262 mapped risks

6.3 > Economic and cultural devaluation of human effort

Mitigation strategy

1. Establish a mandatory Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) clearance protocol for all AI-generated outputs intended for external use, verifying originality, adherence to internal IP policy, and absence of infringing content, and maintaining an immutable audit trail of the human verifier and the content's provenance. 2. Develop and enforce a comprehensive internal Intellectual Property Policy (IPP) that explicitly outlines compliance requirements for copyright, trade secret, and trademark laws, coupled with mandatory, recurring employee training on permissible AI tool usage, data security, and the risks of proprietary information disclosure. 3. Secure enterprise-grade licensing agreements for all third-party AI platforms, ensuring contractual provisions for clear IP ownership of generated outputs, robust warranties against infringement from training data, and sufficient indemnification clauses to mitigate post-deployment legal and financial liability.