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Steganography capability

Frontier AI Risk Management Framework (v1.0)

SAIL & Concordia AI (2025)

Sub-category

Risk Domain

7AI System Safety, Failures & Limitations

7.1AI pursuing its own goals in conflict with human goals or values

AI systems acting in conflict with human goals or values, especially the goals of designers or users, or ethical standards. These misaligned behaviors may be introduced by humans during design and development, such as through reward hacking and goal misgeneralisation, or may result from AI using dangerous capabilities such as manipulation, deception, situational awareness to seek power, self-proliferate, or achieve other goals.

"The ability to embed, conceal, and transmit information covertly within other data or communication channels. This could be critical for coordination among AI instances and for evading detection or oversight mechanisms."(p. 45)

Entity— Who or what caused the harm

Human

Due to a decision or action made by humans

AI system

Due to a decision or action made by an AI system

Other

Due to some other reason or is ambiguous

Intent— Whether the harm was intentional or accidental

Intentional

Due to an expected outcome from pursuing a goal

Unintentional

Due to an unexpected outcome from pursuing a goal