AI Concerns

Map/D3/3.4

I · D3 · 3.4

Autonomous vulnerability discovery

Agents scanning codebases for exploitable flaws.

Catastrophic · 5Documented at scaleNowRisk 25

Severity

5/5

Likelihood

5/5

In the hierarchy

  1. Part I: Technical & System Concerns
  2. D3. Security & Adversarial Risk
  3. 3.4 AI-enabled cyberattacks

Virtues and principles to explore

Held as inquiry, not as a verdict.

  • Stewardship

    Service

    Hold what is built in trust for those who will live with it.

  • Prudence

    Excellence

    Small, reversible steps before irreversible ones.

  • Accountability

    Trust

    Name who holds the consequence before it is needed.

Starter questions

Written to probe curiosity and learning, not accusation.

  1. 01What capacity would we need — in people, in the institution, in the tools — to meet this well?
  2. 02What would Accountability require of us here, before we proceed?
  3. 03What might we be missing if we treat “Autonomous vulnerability discovery” only as a technical problem?
  4. 04If a colleague raised this concern tomorrow, how would we receive it as inquiry rather than accusation?

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Frameworks and sources

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Attacks on and through AI systems: injection, jailbreaks, cyber offense.