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“I Care” Targets Bereaved Parents

01Scenario

The campaign uses breached federal medical and child-mortality data to target “I Care” mailers at recently bereaved parents, then searches for a disposable scapegoat.

02AI safety Analogy

Privacy loss enables precise exploitation of vulnerable people, while organizational incentives favor deniability over prevention.

03Where the analogy breaks

The abuse is carried out by a human campaign using ordinary data systems.

AI Risk families

This scenario is an example of the following types of AI risk.
  1. Malicious use
  2. Security

AI safety concepts

This scenario is related to the following AI safety concepts.
  1. Privacy Loss
  2. Governance Failure
  3. Power Concentration

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