ENVENV-004 — Market Pressure Responses
AI Developers Wilfully Ignore Societal Harms in Pursuit of Profit
3/5Sector: TechnologyGeography: GlobalStage: OperateIngested: —
Executive Summary
AI creators pursuing profit or influence may knowingly permit widespread harms including pollution, misinformation, and social injustice as acceptable side effects. Without credible external intervention or regulatory exposure, internal risk signals are suppressed and governance failures become entrenched.
Domain
Environmental Factors
Blindspots in organisational culture, stakeholder expectations, resource allocation, market pressure, regulatory environment, and external partnerships.
Source
MIT AI Risk Repository — TASRA: a Taxonomy and Analysis of Societal-Scale Risks from AI (Critch2023) ↗https://airisk.mit.edu/
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