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Privacy Risks of General-Purpose AI Systems: A Foundation for Investigating Practitioner Perspectives

Stephen Meisenbacher, Alexandra Klymenko, Patrick Gage Kelley, Sai Teja Peddinti, Kurt Thomas, Florian Matthes

arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.02027, 2024

July 2024

Abstract

The rise of powerful AI models, more formally General-Purpose AI Systems (GPAIS), has led to impressive leaps in performance across a wide range of tasks. At the same time, researchers and practitioners alike have raised a number of privacy concerns, resulting in a wealth of literature covering various privacy risks and vulnerabilities of AI models. Works surveying such risks provide differing focuses, leading to disparate sets of privacy risks with no clear unifying taxonomy. We conduct a systematic review of these survey papers to provide a concise and usable overview of privacy risks in GPAIS, as well as proposed mitigation strategies. The developed privacy framework strives to unify the identified privacy risks and mitigations at a technical level that is accessible to non-experts. This serves as the basis for a practitioner-focused interview study to assess technical stakeholder perceptions of privacy risks and mitigations in GPAIS.

Cite this paper
@misc{meisenbacher2024privacy,
  title         = {Privacy Risks of General-Purpose AI Systems: A Foundation for Investigating Practitioner Perspectives},
  author        = {Meisenbacher, Stephen and Klymenko, Alexandra and Kelley, Patrick Gage and Peddinti, Sai Teja and Thomas, Kurt and Matthes, Florian},
  year          = {2024},
  eprint        = {2407.02027},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.02027},
}
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