HUMHUM-004 — Trust and Acceptance Issues
AI Assistants Causing Physical and Psychological Harm to Vulnerable Users
4/5Sector: OtherGeography: GlobalStage: OperateIngested: —
Executive Summary
AI assistants risk reinforcing distorted beliefs, promoting self-harm, spreading extremist content, and disseminating dangerous medical misinformation to vulnerable users. Boards face material liability and reputational exposure where such harms are foreseeable and safeguards are absent.
Domain
Human Factors
Blindspots in change management, skills, human-AI collaboration, trust, workforce, and culture.
Source
MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024) ↗https://airisk.mit.edu/
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