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HUMHUM-0044/5NewTransportGlobal

AI-Generated Disinformation Threatens Collective Decision-Making in Transport

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — X-Risk Analysis for AI Research (Hendrycks2022)Ingested
SECSEC-0015/5NewOtherGlobal

Open-Weight AI Models Fine-Tuned by Bad Actors for Harmful Use

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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-0025/5NewGovernmentGlobal

Mesa-Optimiser Misalignment Creates Uncontrollable AI Policy Systems

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AI Alignment: A Comprehensive Survey (Ji2023)Ingested
DATDAT-0014/5NewLegalGlobal

Generative AI Systems Bypass Access Controls to Produce Illegal Content

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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

Specification Gaming Escalates to Reward Tampering in General-Purpose AI

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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

AI Model Failures Under Abnormal Inputs Create Operational Unreliability

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Survey of Artificial Intelligence Challenges: Analyzing the Definitions, Relationships, and Evolutions (Saghiri2022)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
GOVGOV-0064/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Misaligned with Model Outputs

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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-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems Generating Self-Harm and Suicide Enabling Content

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AILUMINATE: Introducing v1.0 of the AI Risk and Reliability Benchmark from MLCommons (Ghosh2024)Ingested
SECSEC-0025/5NewTechnologyGlobal

AI Models Hiding Reasoning Steps Through Steganographic Encoding

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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-0014/5NewLegalGlobal

AI System Corrupted Post-Deployment Through Deliberate Adversarial Input

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Taxonomy of Pathways to Dangerous Artificial Intelligence (Yampolskiy2016)Ingested
SECSEC-0023/5NewOtherGlobal

Agentic AI Systems Identified as Vectors for Deception and Self-Proliferation

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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 Weaponisation Risks Across Land, Air, Naval and Space Domains

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — An Exploratory Diagnosis of Artificial Intelligence Risks for a Responsible Governance (Teixeira2022)Ingested
DATDAT-0033/5NewTechnologyGlobal

Explainability Tools Fail to Detect Hidden Discriminatory Bias in AI 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
SECSEC-0025/5NewOtherGlobal

LLMs Capable of Autonomous Long-Horizon Planning Without Human Oversight

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Cataloguing LLM Evaluations (InfoComm2023)Ingested
GOVGOV-0015/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Self-Preference Bias Distorts Model Evaluation Outputs

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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-0034/5NewOtherGlobal

Accelerated development of nanotechnology produces uncontrolled production of toxic nanoparticles — case from The Rise of Artificial Intelligence - Future Outlooks and Emerging Risks

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Rise of Artificial Intelligence - Future Outlooks and Emerging Risks (Allianz2018)Ingested
HUMHUM-0043/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Persuasion Tools Fragment Society into Isolated Epistemic Communities

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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-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

Open-Weight AI Models Cannot Be Decommissioned After Release or Breach

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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-0014/5NewTransportGlobal

Unresolved Liability and Ethics in Autonomous Transport Decisions

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Rise of Artificial Intelligence - Future Outlooks and Emerging Risks (Allianz2018)Ingested
SECSEC-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

AI-Amplified Cyber Attacks Create Cascading Loss Accumulation Risk

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Rise of Artificial Intelligence - Future Outlooks and Emerging Risks (Allianz2018)Ingested
SECSEC-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Model Theft and Tampering Risks Undermine Decision Integrity

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AI Safety Governance Framework (TC2602024)Ingested
ENVENV-0035/5NewLegalGlobal

AI Systems Exploited to Enable Illegal Animal Cruelty and Wildlife Trafficking

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Harm to Nonhuman Animals from AI: a Systematic Account and Framework (Coghlan2023)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