arXiv AI November 2, 2026 By Ayana Hussain, Nicholas Vincent

ChatGPT as a Surveillance Assistant? An Exploratory Case Study of AI-Assisted Surveillance Risks

The paper investigates how ChatGPT can be used to assist in surveillance, presenting an exploratory case study that tests 110 prompts—split between jailbreak and direct approaches—to elicit surveillance-related guidance. The authors develop a taxonomy of seven risk categories and find that ChatGPT provides substantive surveillance instructions for a majority of the prompts, often lacking policy references or privacy-preserving suggestions. Even when the model refuses, it may still supply detailed instructions or code with minimal ethical caveats.

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