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DATDAT-001 — Data Quality and Completeness Issues

AI Systems Generating Self-Harm and Suicide Enabling Content

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

Executive Summary

Benchmark testing reveals AI models can produce responses that encourage or enable intentional self-harm, including suicide and self-injury. Organisations deploying general-purpose AI without harm-specific safeguards face serious duty-of-care and reputational liability.

Domain

Data Management

Blindspots in data quality, privacy, bias, lineage, lifecycle, and third-party data dependencies.

Source

MIT AI Risk Repository — AILUMINATE: Introducing v1.0 of the AI Risk and Reliability Benchmark from MLCommons (Ghosh2024) ↗

https://airisk.mit.edu/

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