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ENVENV-0034/5NewTechnologyGlobal

AI and Automation Systems Causing Direct and Indirect Environmental Damage

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

HUMHUM-0043/5NewTechnologyGlobal

AI-Driven Economic Instability Through Uncontrolled Financial System Fluctuations

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

SECSEC-0044/5NewRetailGlobal

AI-Driven Micro-Targeting Used to Manipulate Voters via Personal Data

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

SECSEC-0043/5NewGovernmentGlobal

AI-Driven Manipulation of Political Beliefs and Government Service Delivery

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

ENVENV-0034/5NewTechnologyGlobal

AI and Automated Systems Causing Environmental Pollution

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

ENVENV-0033/5NewEnergyGlobal

AI Hardware Lifecycle Generating Unmanaged Electronic Waste

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

SECSEC-0024/5NewOtherGlobal

Over-Automated AI Systems Exhibit Unsafe and Unreliable Behaviour

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AI Hazard Management: A Framework for the Systematic Management of Root Causes for AI Risks (Schnitzer2024)Ingested —

ENVENV-0033/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Data Centre Cooling Drives Local Water Shortages

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

SECSEC-0045/5NewRetailGlobal

AI Advertising Models Driving Systemic Influence Over Consumer Behaviour

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

ENVENV-0033/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Hardware Supply Chains Drive Depletion of Critical Natural Resources

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

DATDAT-0023/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems Expose Personal Data and Breach User Privacy

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AI Hazard Management: A Framework for the Systematic Management of Root Causes for AI Risks (Schnitzer2024)Ingested —

DATDAT-0034/5NewOtherGlobal

Discriminative Data Bias Produces Systematically Unfair AI Decisions

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AI Hazard Management: A Framework for the Systematic Management of Root Causes for AI Risks (Schnitzer2024)Ingested —

BUSBUS-0053/5NewOtherGlobal

Advanced AI Systems Concentrate Economic Power and Widen Inequality

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

GOVGOV-0063/5NewOtherGlobal

Black-box AI models obscure data and model flaws from developers

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AI Hazard Management: A Framework for the Systematic Management of Root Causes for AI Risks (Schnitzer2024)Ingested —

GOVGOV-0063/5NewOtherGlobal

Concept Drift Degrades AI Model Reliability Over Time

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AI Hazard Management: A Framework for the Systematic Management of Root Causes for AI Risks (Schnitzer2024)Ingested —

SECSEC-0043/5NewOtherGlobal

General-Purpose AI Manipulation of Public Information and Epistemic Systems

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

HUMHUM-0033/5NewOtherGlobal

AI-Driven Irreversible Shifts in Social Structures and Cultural Norms

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

SECSEC-0044/5NewOtherGlobal

AI-Enabled Persuasion Tools Pose Systemic Manipulation Risk

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

SECSEC-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

Ability to enhance and modify pathogens — case from A Taxonomy of Systemic Risks from General-Purpose AI

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

OPSOPS-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

Operational Data Drift Degrades AI Model Performance

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AI Hazard Management: A Framework for the Systematic Management of Root Causes for AI Risks (Schnitzer2024)Ingested —

HUMHUM-0053/5NewOtherGlobal

General-Purpose AI Drives Systemic Economic Disruption and Wealth Inequality

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

HUMHUM-0053/5NewOtherGlobal

AI-Driven Labour Market Disruption Poses Uneven Employment and Wage Risks

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — International AI Safety Report 2025 (Bengio2025)Ingested —

BUSBUS-0053/5NewOtherUSA

AI R&D Concentration in High-Income Nations Deepens Global Inequality

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — International AI Safety Report 2025 (Bengio2025)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 —