The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence

Sep 14, 2026 08:22 AM - 3 hours ago 2

[Submitted connected 20 Feb 2018 (v1), past revised 1 Dec 2024 (this version, v2)]

Authors:Miles Brundage, Shahar Avin, Jack Clark, Helen Toner, Peter Eckersley, Ben Garfinkel, Allan Dafoe, Paul Scharre, Thomas Zeitzoff, Bobby Filar, Hyrum Anderson, Heather Roff, Gregory C. Allen, Jacob Steinhardt, Carrick Flynn, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, SJ Beard, Haydn Belfield, Sebastian Farquhar, Clare Lyle, Rebecca Crootof, Owain Evans, Michael Page, Joanna Bryson, Roman Yampolskiy, Dario Amodei

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Abstract:This study surveys the scenery of imaginable information threats from malicious uses of AI, and proposes ways to amended forecast, prevent, and mitigate these threats. After analyzing the ways successful which AI whitethorn power the threat scenery successful the digital, physical, and governmental domains, we make 4 high-level recommendations for AI researchers and different stakeholders. We besides propose respective promising areas for further investigation that could grow the portfolio of defenses, aliases make attacks little effective aliases harder to execute. Finally, we discuss, but do not conclusively resolve, the semipermanent equilibrium of attackers and defenders.