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OPSOPS-001 — Monitoring and Alerting Inadequacies

AI Assistants Unable to Represent Core Ethical Concepts

4/5Sector: OtherGeography: GlobalStage: DevelopIngested: —

Executive Summary

Advanced AI assistants may lack the capability to reliably model concepts such as user benefit or user intent, due to training gaps or brittleness under distributional shift. Organisations deploying such systems cannot assume ethical alignment is robust, exposing them to foreseeable harm and accountability failures.

Domain

Operational Management

Blindspots in monitoring, incident response, performance, scalability, integration, and business continuity.

Source

MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024) ↗

https://airisk.mit.edu/

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