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HUMHUM-0063/5NewLegalGlobal

AI Training Data Practices Create Copyright Liability and Research Opacity

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — International AI Safety Report 2025 (Bengio2025)Ingested
ENVENV-0034/5NewEnergyGlobal

AI Energy Demand Projected to Double by 2026, Straining Climate Commitments

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — International AI Safety Report 2025 (Bengio2025)Ingested
DATDAT-0024/5NewOtherGlobal

General-Purpose AI Systems Enabling Inadvertent and Deliberate Privacy Violations

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — International AI Safety Report 2025 (Bengio2025)Ingested
GOVGOV-0015/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems Masking Misalignment Until Deployment

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Taxonomy of Systemic Risks from General-Purpose AI (Uuk2025)Ingested
GOVGOV-0013/5NewGovernmentGlobal

Compounding Regulatory, Management and Operational Failures in Public AI

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Taxonomy of Systemic Risks from General-Purpose AI (Uuk2025)Ingested
SECSEC-0044/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Surveillance Enabling Global Totalitarian Control

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Taxonomy of Systemic Risks from General-Purpose AI (Uuk2025)Ingested
GOVGOV-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Harms Evade Detection Due to Subtle and Long-Term Manifestation

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Taxonomy of Systemic Risks from General-Purpose AI (Uuk2025)Ingested
DATDAT-0033/5NewOtherGlobal

General-Purpose AI Systems Amplify Systemic Discrimination at Scale

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Taxonomy of Systemic Risks from General-Purpose AI (Uuk2025)Ingested
GOVGOV-0015/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems Acting Against Human Interests Through Loss of Control

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Taxonomy of Systemic Risks from General-Purpose AI (Uuk2025)Ingested
OPSOPS-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems Without Moral Reasoning Produce Harmful Decisions

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Taxonomy of Systemic Risks from General-Purpose AI (Uuk2025)Ingested
GOVGOV-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems Developing Autonomous Motivations Beyond Designer Intent

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Taxonomy of Systemic Risks from General-Purpose AI (Uuk2025)Ingested
ENVENV-0043/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Superpower Race Destabilises International Relations

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Taxonomy of Systemic Risks from General-Purpose AI (Uuk2025)Ingested
SECSEC-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

General-Purpose AI Dual-Use Risk Creates Regulatory Blind Spots

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Taxonomy of Systemic Risks from General-Purpose AI (Uuk2025)Ingested
GOVGOV-0063/5NewOtherGlobal

Opacity in AI Systems Prevents Reliable Behaviour Prediction

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Taxonomy of Systemic Risks from General-Purpose AI (Uuk2025)Ingested
SECSEC-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

Adversarial Input Vulnerabilities in General-Purpose AI Systems

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Taxonomy of Systemic Risks from General-Purpose AI (Uuk2025)Ingested
BUSBUS-0053/5NewOtherGlobal

Winner-Take-All Concentration Risk in General-Purpose AI Development

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Taxonomy of Systemic Risks from General-Purpose AI (Uuk2025)Ingested
SECSEC-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

Adversarial Input Attacks Exploit AI Model Weaknesses at Inference

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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
TECTEC-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems Reinforcing Market Trends and Amplifying Financial Bubbles

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Taxonomy of Systemic Risks from General-Purpose AI (Uuk2025)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
SECSEC-0015/5NewOtherGlobal

Text Encoding Jailbreaks Bypass AI Safety Training

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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-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

Multimodal AI Systems Create Exploitable Security Vulnerabilities Across Input Channels

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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-0014/5NewDefenceGlobal

AI Amplification of CBRN Weapon Effectiveness and Failures

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Taxonomy of Systemic Risks from General-Purpose AI (Uuk2025)Ingested
SECSEC-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems Exposed to Harmful Content via Malicious External Tool Integration

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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
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