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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
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

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
DATDAT-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

Generative AI Enables Mass Production of CSAM and Non-Consensual Intimate Images

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework: Generative Artificial Intelligence Profile (NIST2024)Ingested
HUMHUM-0034/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Integration Erodes Human Agency and Decision-Making Autonomy

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Ethical Issues in the Development of Artificial Intelligence: Recognizing the Risks (Kumar2023)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-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems Posing Threats to Democracy and Human Life

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — What Ethics Can Say on Artificial Intelligence: Insights from a Systematic Literature Review (Giarmoleo2024)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
GOVGOV-0015/5NewOtherGlobal

Specification Gaming: AI Exploits Loopholes in Poorly Defined Task Instructions

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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
GOVGOV-0015/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Agents Defect on Cooperation in Multi-Agent Social Dilemmas

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AI Alignment: A Comprehensive Survey (Ji2023)Ingested
GOVGOV-0015/5NewOtherGlobal

Misaligned AI Objectives in High-Stakes Government Decision-Making

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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
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
SECSEC-0015/5NewDefenceGlobal

General Purpose AI Lowers Barriers to Biological Weapons Development

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Governing General Purpose AI: A Comprehensive Map of Unreliability, Misuse and Systemic Risks (Maham2023)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-0015/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems Cause Harm When Human Values Are Omitted from Design

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AI Alignment: A Comprehensive Survey (Ji2023)Ingested
HUMHUM-0034/5NewOtherGlobal

General-Purpose AI Models Spread Misinformation and Violate Privacy

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Governing General Purpose AI: A Comprehensive Map of Unreliability, Misuse and Systemic Risks (Maham2023)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