Demonstration
A researcher or vendor showed the path to harm deliberately, in a setting designed to stop before harm.
Glossary group: Mandate contextsAnchor:
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- Production
- The system was serving real users or operating in the real world under its intended mandate.
- Test run
- The system was being evaluated, but the test reached production systems or real-world consequences.
- Adversarial use
- The system was operated by an adversary as the instrument of an attack.
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