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OPSOPS-001 — Monitoring and Alerting Inadequacies

AI Systems Designed to Human Ethical Standards Will Replicate Human Moral Failures

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

Executive Summary

Calibrating AI decision-making to human ethical norms embeds the full range of human moral failure into automated systems at scale. Boards must set explicit ethical floors above observed human behaviour, not use human conduct as the benchmark for acceptable AI performance.

Domain

Operational Management

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

Source

MIT AI Risk Repository — Managing the ethical and risk implications of rapid advances in artificial intelligence: A literature review (Meek2016) ↗

https://airisk.mit.edu/

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