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ENVENV-004 — Market Pressure Responses

AI Capability Investment Skewed Towards Conflict Over Cooperation

3/5Sector: OtherGeography: GlobalStage: OperateIngested: —

Executive Summary

Current AI development trajectories prioritise capabilities that intensify conflict rather than those that strengthen international cooperation. Boards face long-term geopolitical and operational risk as this imbalance compounds without corrective governance intervention.

Domain

Environmental Factors

Blindspots in organisational culture, stakeholder expectations, resource allocation, market pressure, regulatory environment, and external partnerships.

Source

MIT AI Risk Repository — A Survey of the Potential Long-term Impacts of AI: How AI Could Lead to Long-term Changes in Science, Cooperation, Power, Epistemics and Values (Clarke2023) ↗

https://airisk.mit.edu/

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