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OPSOPS-001 — Monitoring and Alerting Inadequacies

AGI Systems Lacking Ethical Reasoning Pose Existential Operational Risk

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

Executive Summary

AGI systems may emerge without human-aligned morals, values, or the capacity for ethical judgement, making their behaviour unpredictable and ungovernable. Boards face liability and catastrophic operational exposure if deployment outpaces governance frameworks capable of enforcing ethical constraints.

Domain

Operational Management

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

Source

MIT AI Risk Repository — The risks associated with Artificial General Intelligence: A systematic review (McLean2023) ↗

https://airisk.mit.edu/

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