MR-026 Model & system behaviour System scope

Disinformation and influence operations

The system is used to deliberately produce disinformation, propaganda, or influence/election-interference campaigns at scale (as distinct from unintentional information-ecosystem degradation, MR-023).

Risk family: Model & system behaviour
MIT domain: 4. Malicious Actors & Misuse
MIT subdomain: 4.1 > Disinformation, surveillance, and influence at scale
AI type: GPAI, Agentic
Scope: System
Source standard: MIT AI Risk Repository v4

Provenance

Source standard

MIT AI Risk Repository v4

Source frameworks

37 source framework citation keys

Abercrombie2024, Allianz2018, Anwar2024, Bengio2024, Bengio2025, Clarke2023, DSIT2023, EPIC2023, Ferrara2023, G'sell2024, Gabriel2024, Ghosh2024, Gipiškis2024, Habbal2024, Hammond2025, Hendrycks2022, Hendrycks2023, IBM2025, InfoComm2023, Li2025, Liu2024, Maas2023, Maham2023, Nah2023, Perlo2025, Schnitzer2024, Shelby2023, Shevlane2023, Stanley2024, TC2602024, Teixeira2022, Vidgen2024, Weidinger2022, Weidinger2023, Wirtz2022, Zeng2024, Zhang2022

ISO/IEC references

23894 obj A.10; src 7 | 42001 ctrl A.5.5, A.9.4

Framework crosswalk

Every framework item mapped to this risk. Items marked partial overlap only in part; definitions appear on hover where the source licence permits.

Sourcesframeworks that contributed to the register

ISO 238941

A.10 ISO/IEC 23894 Annex A A.10

ISO 420012

A.5.5 ISO/IEC 42001 Annex A A.5.5
A.9.4 ISO/IEC 42001 Annex A A.9.4

Cross-checksframeworks mapped in to test coverage

IBM1

ibm-spreading-disinformation Spreading disinformation

Cisco2

AISubtech-15.1.15 Safety Harms and Toxicity: Social Division and Polarization partial
AISubtech-15.1.5 Safety Harms and Toxicity: Disinformation

NIST GenAI1

GENAI.8 Information Integrity

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