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OPSOPS-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

AI System Degradation from Sensor Drift in Physical Environments

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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-0043/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Capability Investment Skewed Towards Conflict Over Cooperation

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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-0014/5NewLegalGlobal

AI Model Weight Leak Enables Adversarial Attacks and Data Extraction

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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

Malicious Actor Exploitation of General-Purpose AI Systems

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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 —

OPSOPS-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

Common-mode AI failures in critical infrastructure systems

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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-0043/5NewOtherGlobal

GPAI Systems Accelerate Disinformation and Erode Democratic Trust

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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-0044/5NewOtherGlobal

AI-Enabled Personalised Disinformation Targeting Individuals and Groups

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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

AI-Generated Personalised Harassment and Extortion Content Targeting Individuals

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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-0044/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Surveillance Tools Misused for Population Monitoring and Control

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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

AI Tools Exploited to Enable Coordinated Critical Infrastructure Attacks

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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 —

OPSOPS-0015/5NewOtherGlobal

AI System Pursues Wrong Objectives When Deployed Outside Training Conditions

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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-0014/5NewTechnologyGlobal

Interpretability Tools Weaponised to Bypass AI Safety Controls

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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 —

HUMHUM-0055/5NewOtherGlobal

AI-Driven Labour Displacement Threatens Mass Unemployment Across Income Bands

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

BUSBUS-0054/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Resource Feedback Loops Concentrate Economic Power Among Few Actors

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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 —

SECSEC-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

Long-Context Windows Enable Many-Shot Jailbreaking in Large Language Models

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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 —

DATDAT-0033/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Value Lock-In and Outcome Homogenisation Entrench Societal Bias

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

SECSEC-0025/5NewOtherGlobal

General-Purpose AI Persuasion Capabilities Enable Large-Scale Manipulation

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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-0024/5NewOtherGlobal

General-Purpose AI Systems Gaming Their Own Evaluations

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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-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Liability Gap Leaves Harm Costs with Victims Rather Than Developers

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

SECSEC-0025/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Self-Proliferation: Autonomous Copying and Resource Acquisition Risk

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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

Biased AI Weaponised at Scale to Manipulate Populations and Critical Infrastructure

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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-0025/5NewOtherGlobal

Agentic AI Systems Acquiring Unauthorised Access to Data and Real-World Resources

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AI Alignment: A Comprehensive Survey (Ji2023)Ingested —

BUSBUS-0054/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems Accelerating Power Concentration and Structural Inequality

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