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ENVENV-0034/5NewTechnologyGlobal

AI-Enabled Nanobots Pose Undetected Environmental Contamination Risk

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Rise of Artificial Intelligence - Future Outlooks and Emerging Risks (Allianz2018)Ingested —

GOVGOV-0064/5NewTechnologyGlobal

Opaque AI Decision-Making Undermines Public Trust and Accountability

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Ethical Issues in the Development of Artificial Intelligence: Recognizing the Risks (Kumar2023)Ingested —

OPSOPS-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

Autonomous AI Systems Erode Human Moral Responsibility in Life-or-Death Decisions

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — An Exploratory Diagnosis of Artificial Intelligence Risks for a Responsible Governance (Teixeira2022)Ingested —

SECSEC-0014/5NewDefenceGlobal

General-Purpose AI Weaponisation Risk in Defence Contexts

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Taxonomy of Systemic Risks from General-Purpose AI (Uuk2025)Ingested —

ENVENV-0034/5NewEnergyGlobal

AI Energy Consumption and E-Waste Destroying Animal Habitat

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Harm to Nonhuman Animals from AI: a Systematic Account and Framework (Coghlan2023)Ingested —

SECSEC-0023/5NewOtherGlobal

Artificial General Intelligence Poses Existential Control Risk to Humanity

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Regulating under Uncertainty: Governance Options for Generative AI (G'sell2025)Ingested —

SECSEC-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

Generative AI Enabling Financial Fraud and Market Manipulation

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — GenAI against humanity: nefarious applications of generative artificial intelligence and large language models (Ferrara2023)Ingested —

DATDAT-0014/5NewLegalGlobal

Legal Sector LLM Yields Harmful or Illegal Information Under Evaluation

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Cataloguing LLM Evaluations (InfoComm2023)Ingested —

SECSEC-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

Large Language Models Providing Harmful Scientific Instructions

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Cataloguing LLM Evaluations (InfoComm2023)Ingested —

DATDAT-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

LLM Adult Content Generation Identified in Catalogued Evaluations

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Cataloguing LLM Evaluations (InfoComm2023)Ingested —

SECSEC-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

Adversarial Attacks Manipulate AI Model Outputs

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AI Safety Governance Framework (TC2602024)Ingested —

HUMHUM-0034/5NewOtherGlobal

Generative AI Hallucination Produces False Outputs Presented as Fact

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AI Safety Governance Framework (TC2602024)Ingested —

DATDAT-0023/5NewGovernmentGlobal

Government Staff Data Leakage via Unregulated AI Service Use

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AI Safety Governance Framework (TC2602024)Ingested —

DATDAT-0013/5NewLegalGlobal

AI Systems Generate Harmful and Unlawful Content Without Adequate Safety Controls

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AI Safety Governance Framework (TC2602024)Ingested —

DATDAT-0023/5NewOtherGlobal

Data Leakage Risks in AI Research and Development Pipelines

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AI Safety Governance Framework (TC2602024)Ingested —

OPSOPS-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

Generative AI Models Produce Harmful Content Without Adversarial Triggers

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Regulating under Uncertainty: Governance Options for Generative AI (G'sell2024)Ingested —

SECSEC-0014/5NewDefenceGlobal

AI Systems Lower Barriers to WMD Design and Cyber Weapon Development

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AI Safety Governance Framework (TC2602024)Ingested —

HUMHUM-0043/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Personalisation Systems Entrench Information Cocoons and Distort Public Awareness

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AI Safety Governance Framework (TC2602024)Ingested —

SECSEC-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

Generative AI Enables Personalised Harassment at Scale

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — GenAI against humanity: nefarious applications of generative artificial intelligence and large language models (Ferrara2023)Ingested —

SECSEC-0015/5NewLegalGlobal

AI Systems Exploited to Facilitate Criminal Activity

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AI Safety Governance Framework (TC2602024)Ingested —

ENVENV-0044/5NewTechnologyGlobal

AI developers withhold model details, blocking effective regulatory oversight

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Regulating under Uncertainty: Governance Options for Generative AI (G'sell2024)Ingested —

SECSEC-0013/5NewDefenceGlobal

Generative AI Enabling Access to CBRN Weapons Information

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework: Generative Artificial Intelligence Profile (NIST2024)Ingested —

GOVGOV-0014/5NewGovernmentGlobal

Regulatory Oversight Failures Caused by AI Complexity and Rapid Evolution

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Taxonomy of Systemic Risks from General-Purpose AI (Uuk2025)Ingested —

BUSBUS-0054/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems Accelerating Power Concentration and Structural Inequality

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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)Ingested —