Meaning of information hazard | Babel Free

Definitions

A risk arising from the dissemination of true information.

Examples

“Information hazards are risks that arise⟳ from the dissemination or the potential dissemination of true information that may cause harm⟳ or enable some agent to cause harm⟳. Such hazards are often subtler than direct⟳ physical threats, and, as a consequence, are easily overlooked.”

“He thinks the scientific enterprise needs better norms around potentially dangerous information. First: Don’t spread⟳ it. Second: If someone tells you that your work⟳ represents an information hazard, “you should seriously respect⟳ their call⟳.””

“In cases where one expects a few highly sophisticated bad actors, easy‐to‐discover⟳ information hazards can be shared widely: good actors may benefit, and bad actors likely already know⟳ or are likely to rediscover the information hazard themselves.”

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