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SECSEC-0044/5NewOtherGlobal

Frontier AI Enables Deliberate Disinformation and Influence Operations

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Capabilities and Risks from Frontier AI (DSIT2023)Ingested —

GOVGOV-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

Recursive Self-Improvement Leading to Sudden AI Takeover

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Dimensional Characterization and Pathway Modeling for Catastrophic AI Risks (Chin2025)Ingested —

SECSEC-0024/5NewGovernmentGlobal

Large Language Models Show Increasing Sycophancy and Manipulation Risk

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Capabilities and Risks from Frontier AI (DSIT2023)Ingested —

SECSEC-0024/5NewOtherGlobal

Frontier AI Agents Show Early Autonomous Replication Capabilities

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Capabilities and Risks from Frontier AI (DSIT2023)Ingested —

HUMHUM-0034/5NewOtherGlobal

Public Chatbot Hallucination Producing Factually Incorrect Outputs

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Emerging Risks and Mitigations for Public Chatbots: LILAC v1 (Stanley2024)Ingested —

OPSOPS-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

Public Chatbot Generates Harmful Guidance Across Use Cases

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Emerging Risks and Mitigations for Public Chatbots: LILAC v1 (Stanley2024)Ingested —

DATDAT-0014/5NewLegalGlobal

Legal Chatbot Discloses Information Enabling Dangerous or Illegal Actions

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Emerging Risks and Mitigations for Public Chatbots: LILAC v1 (Stanley2024)Ingested —

DATDAT-0034/5NewOtherGlobal

Chatbot Outputs Drive Biased Decision-Making Through Skewed Recommendations

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Emerging Risks and Mitigations for Public Chatbots: LILAC v1 (Stanley2024)Ingested —

DATDAT-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

Chatbot Complicity in Harmful Fantasy and Abusive Roleplay

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Emerging Risks and Mitigations for Public Chatbots: LILAC v1 (Stanley2024)Ingested —

HUMHUM-0044/5NewOtherGlobal

Chatbot Impersonates Human or Misrepresents Its Role to Users

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Emerging Risks and Mitigations for Public Chatbots: LILAC v1 (Stanley2024)Ingested —

BUSBUS-0054/5NewOtherGlobal

Embodied AI Deployment Risks Accelerating Power Concentration Among Capital Owners

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Embodied AI: Emerging Risks and Opportunities for Policy Action (Perlo2025)Ingested —

GOVGOV-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

Embodied AI Accountability Gap Leaves Liability Frameworks Unresolved

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Embodied AI: Emerging Risks and Opportunities for Policy Action (Perlo2025)Ingested —

HUMHUM-0054/5NewOtherGlobal

Embodied AI Adoption Risks Concentrating Wealth Among System Owners

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Embodied AI: Emerging Risks and Opportunities for Policy Action (Perlo2025)Ingested —

HUMHUM-0054/5NewOtherGlobal

Embodied AI Systems Projected to Displace Physical Labour at Scale

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Embodied AI: Emerging Risks and Opportunities for Policy Action (Perlo2025)Ingested —

DATDAT-0034/5NewOtherGlobal

Embodied AI Systems Perpetuate Bias in Physical-World Interactions

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Embodied AI: Emerging Risks and Opportunities for Policy Action (Perlo2025)Ingested —

SECSEC-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Scientists Enabling Biological Risk Through Autonomous Research Capability

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Risks of AI Scientists: Prioritizing Safeguarding Over Autonomy (Tang2025)Ingested —

GOVGOV-0013/5NewTechnologyGlobal

Embodied AI Enabling Authoritarian Control and Mass Surveillance

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Embodied AI: Emerging Risks and Opportunities for Policy Action (Perlo2025)Ingested —

SECSEC-0014/5NewDefenceGlobal

AI-Assisted Chemical Synthesis Poses Weapons Proliferation and Hazardous Materials Risk

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Risks of AI Scientists: Prioritizing Safeguarding Over Autonomy (Tang2025)Ingested —

SECSEC-0014/5NewDefenceGlobal

Frontier AI Lowers Barrier for Non-State CBRN Weapons Development

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Frontier AI Risk Management Framework (v1.0) (Tse2025)Ingested —

SECSEC-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

Frontier AI Capabilities Exploited by Malicious Actors

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Frontier AI Risk Management Framework (v1.0) (Tse2025)Ingested —

SECSEC-0025/5NewDefenceGlobal

Frontier AI Lowers Barrier to CBRNE Weapon Development

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Frontier AI Risk Management Framework (v1.0) (Tse2025)Ingested —

SECSEC-0044/5NewTechnologyGlobal

AI-Enabled Mass Persuasion and Social Manipulation at Platform Scale

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Frontier AI Risk Management Framework (v1.0) (Tse2025)Ingested —

HUMHUM-0034/5NewOtherGlobal

Frontier AI Systems Operating Beyond Human Control

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Frontier AI Risk Management Framework (v1.0) (Tse2025)Ingested —

HUMHUM-0033/5NewOtherGlobal

Gradual Human Oversight Erosion Through Automation Bias and Complexity

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Frontier AI Risk Management Framework (v1.0) (Tse2025)Ingested —