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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
HUMHUM-0034/5NewGovernmentGlobal

Generative AI Confabulation in Government Services

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework: Generative Artificial Intelligence Profile (NIST2024)Ingested
DATDAT-0014/5NewLegalGlobal

Generative AI Enables Mass Production of Violent and Radicalising Content

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework: Generative Artificial Intelligence Profile (NIST2024)Ingested
HUMHUM-0033/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems Exploiting Personal Identity Without Consent

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Collaborative, Human-Centred Taxonomy of AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Harms (Abercrombie2024)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
GOVGOV-0014/5NewEducationGlobal

LLMs Produce Inaccurate Output and Target Less-Educated Users

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AI Alignment: A Comprehensive Survey (Ji2023)Ingested
BUSBUS-0054/5NewFinanceGlobal

Concentrated AI Market Creates Systemic Risk Across Critical Sectors

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI (Bengio2024)Ingested
DATDAT-0024/5NewOtherGlobal

General-Purpose AI Models Leak Personal Data and Enable Privacy Abuse

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI (Bengio2024)Ingested
HUMHUM-0054/5NewOtherGlobal

General-Purpose AI Risks Broad Structural Unemployment Across Labour Markets

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI (Bengio2024)Ingested
ENVENV-0033/5NewEnergyGlobal

AI Energy Consumption Driving Rapid Growth in CO2 Emissions

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI (Bengio2024)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
GOVGOV-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Agents Cannot Reliably Maintain Intended Goals Under Self-Modification

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AGI Safety Literature Review (Everitt2018)Ingested
SECSEC-0025/5NewOtherGlobal

AGI Subagent Proliferation Evades Shutdown Controls

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AGI Safety Literature Review (Everitt2018)Ingested
SECSEC-0014/5NewDefenceGlobal

AI Weaponisation Enabling Escalation Pathways in Aerial, Chemical and Nuclear Domains

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — X-Risk Analysis for AI Research (Hendrycks2022)Ingested
OPSOPS-0014/5NewTechnologyGlobal

LLMs Misled by Irrelevant Context, Degrading Reliable Performance

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems (Gipiškis2024)Ingested
SECSEC-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

General Purpose AI Enabling More Efficient and Sophisticated Cybercrime

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Governing General Purpose AI: A Comprehensive Map of Unreliability, Misuse and Systemic Risks (Maham2023)Ingested
SECSEC-0025/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems Acquiring Autonomous Replication Capability Online

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Advancing AI Governance: A Literature Review of Problems, Options, and Proposals (Maas2023)Ingested
SECSEC-0015/5NewTechnologyGlobal

General Purpose AI Misuse Risks Across Cybercrime, Biosecurity and Political Manipulation

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Governing General Purpose AI: A Comprehensive Map of Unreliability, Misuse and Systemic Risks (Maham2023)Ingested
DATDAT-0024/5NewOtherGlobal

Generative AI Systems Leaking Sensitive Personal and Biometric Data

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework: Generative Artificial Intelligence Profile (NIST2024)Ingested
OPSOPS-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

Black-Box AI Models Cause Accidents When Connected to Real-World Systems

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Governing General Purpose AI: A Comprehensive Map of Unreliability, Misuse and Systemic Risks (Maham2023)Ingested
HUMHUM-0034/5NewDefenceGlobal

Automated Military AI Systems Risk Unintended Escalation to Armed Conflict

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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
BUSBUS-0053/5NewOtherUSA

Global AI Talent and Compute Concentration Excludes Most Nations

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Ten Hard Problems in Artificial Intelligence We Must Get Right (Leech2024)Ingested
OPSOPS-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

Undetected AI Defects Cause Harmful Outcomes After Deployment

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Taxonomy of Pathways to Dangerous Artificial Intelligence (Yampolskiy2016)Ingested
ENVENV-0033/5NewOtherGlobal

AI and Automation Systems Drive Excess Carbon Emissions

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Collaborative, Human-Centred Taxonomy of AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Harms (Abercrombie2024)Ingested

Beyond accidental failureNational Security

We also track 20 hostile uses of AI.

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The public database covers AI that fails by accident. AIBlindspot National Security — exclusive to the Defence tier — tracks AI used as a weapon, mapped by capability:

State-Sponsored AI Operations
6
AI-Enabled Disinformation
5
Adversarial Attacks on AI
0
Autonomous Weapon Incidents
1
AI-Assisted Cyber Attacks
5
Dual-Use AI Misuse
3