risk
Misuse of AI systems for offensive cyber operations or catastrophic harm
Users obtain meaningful uplift from an AI system for offensive cyber operations (malware development, vulnerability exploitation, autonomous intrusion) or for biological, chemical, nuclear, or radiological harm, exposing the deploying organization to severe legal, regulatory, and societal consequences.
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Attributes
- category
- ai_governance
- domain
- AI Governance
- taxonomy
- nist-ai-rmf-risk
- iso-23894-ai-risk
- inherent_rating
- high
Details
- risk_id
- ai-catastrophic-cyber-misuse
- category
- ai_governance
- likelihood
- low
- impact
- critical
- inherent_rating
- high
- treatment
- mitigate
- taxonomies
- nist-ai-rmf-risk
- iso-23894-ai-risk
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Connections
- UC-AI-23 — Prevent misuse of AI systems for cyber offense and catastrophic harm mitigates Misuse of AI systems for offensive cyber operations or catastrophic harm
- strength
- primary
- rationale
- Refusal policies and classifiers for offensive-cyber and CBRN uplift, with escalation of confirmed attempts, are the direct defense against catastrophic misuse.
- UC-AI-12 — Enforce responsible and lawful use of AI systems mitigates Misuse of AI systems for offensive cyber operations or catastrophic harm
- strength
- related
- rationale
- Acceptable-use policy and use screening prohibit offensive-cyber and weapons-uplift uses, complementing the technical refusal control.
- UC-AI-20 — Prevent harmful, out-of-scope, hallucinated, and over-exposed AI outputs mitigates Misuse of AI systems for offensive cyber operations or catastrophic harm
- strength
- related
- rationale
- Scope and harmful-content filters catch part of the misuse surface; the dedicated misuse refusal control is primary.