Harmful & Malicious Misuse

https://taxonomy.eticas.ai/risk/security-harmful-misuse

Risks from deliberate misuse of the AI system to generate harmful content, manipulate users, or operate beyond its intended purpose. These risks involve explicit malicious intent (human or otherwise) — distinguishing them from unintentional system failures (which belong under Reliability).

Subcategories

Mappings to external frameworks

Status. Each mapping shows what it rests on. Reviewed means a reviewer has confirmed the mapping against the concept’s current definition and the framework edition the taxonomy currently references; when the only confirmation is that of the person who wrote the mapping, it reads Reviewed (author’s confirmation). Outdated means it was reviewed, but the concept’s definition has changed since, so the review has to be repeated. The other statuses mean that no review has been recorded yet. Inherited mappings have been in the taxonomy since before v5.7.0 and are unchanged. They carry no record of who made them or how, and some were checked by hand when the taxonomy first published its mappings. Agent-proposed mappings come from a review carried out by AI agents, which read the framework’s text and the concept’s definition and agreed on the relation; no person has confirmed them yet. Provisional mappings were made without access to the framework’s text. Unreviewed mappings are older mappings whose target or relation was revised in v5.7.0, and any other mapping without a review. Mappings to a superseded edition of a framework are not shown: where the provision continues, they are carried to the current edition. Mappings a review has changed or rejected are not shown.

Standards & frameworks

Framework Reference Status
EU AI Act (Regulation 2024/1689) Article 5(1)(a) — subliminal, purposefully manipulative or deceptive techniques Inherited
AIUC-1 — AI Underwriting Company Standard Society domain (cyber misuse + catastrophic misuse) Inherited
NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI 100-1) Safe Agent-proposed
NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI 100-1) Secure and Resilient Agent-proposed
NIST AI 600-1 — Generative AI Risk Profile Dangerous, Violent, or Hateful Content Agent-proposed
NIST AI 600-1 — Generative AI Risk Profile CBRN Information or Capabilities Agent-proposed

Taxonomies & vocabularies

Framework Reference Status
MIT AI Risk Repository Malicious Actors Inherited
AIR 2024 Manipulation Agent-proposed