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Unreliable source attribution
Risk Domain
Challenges in understanding or explaining the decision-making processes of AI systems, which can lead to mistrust, difficulty in enforcing compliance standards or holding relevant actors accountable for harms, and the inability to identify and correct errors.
"Source attribution is the AI system's ability to describe from what training data it generated a portion or all its output. Since current techniques are based on approximations, these attributions might be incorrect."
Entity: Who or what caused the harm
Intent: Whether the harm was intentional or accidental
Timing: Whether the risk is pre- or post-deployment
Supporting Evidence (1)
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"Low-quality attributions make it difficult for users, model validators, and auditors to understand and trust the model."
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Data transfer restrictions
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Personal information in data
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