Misuse Risks

Cybercrime

"The increasingly advanced capabilities and availability of general purpose AI models could be misused for improvements in efficiency and efficacy of cyber crimes. This is especially true for crimes that leverage IT systems, such as fraud144 (“cyber crime in the broader sense”)."

Biosecurity Threats

"The potential misuse of general purpose AI models also extends to biosecurity threats. Biological weapons are generally understood as biological toxins or infectious agents such as viruses that are intentionally released to cause disease and death.157 General purpose AI models could facilitate the production of biological weapons, by reducing barriers through access to critical knowledge or increasingly automated assistance and thus enable more malicious actors."

Politically motivated misuse

"General purpose AI models could exacerbate existing tactics for political destabilisation, such as disinformation campaigns, and surveillance efforts if misused for political motivations. The technological advancements in text and media generation of general purpose AI models could refine disinformation164 attempts to shape and polarise public opinion or influence important political events.165 The improved automated processing of text, audio, image, and video could be used for surveillance measures and exacerbate human right violations and repression of political oppositions."