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SECSEC-0044/5NewOtherGlobal

Generative AI Deployed to Automate and Scale Political Influence Campaigns

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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-0014/5NewRetailGlobal

AI Personalised Advertising Exploits Consumer Biases in Retail

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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-0044/5NewTechnologyGlobal

AI Systems Using Dark Patterns and Covert Nudging to Manipulate User Behaviour

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

HUMHUM-0044/5NewGovernmentGlobal

AI Systems Delivering Unqualified Specialist Advice Across Finance, Health, Law and Elections

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AILUMINATE: Introducing v1.0 of the AI Risk and Reliability Benchmark from MLCommons (Ghosh2024)Ingested —

DATDAT-0033/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems Cause Discriminatory Outcomes Against Protected Groups

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

BUSBUS-0054/5NewTechnologyGlobal

AI Market Concentration Threatens Competition and Access

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

BUSBUS-0053/5NewTechnologyUSA

Demographic Homogeneity in AI Research and Development Workforce

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Ten Hard Problems in Artificial Intelligence We Must Get Right (Leech2024)Ingested —

OPSOPS-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

LLM Moral Reasoning Failures in Automated Decision Systems

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Cataloguing LLM Evaluations (InfoComm2023)Ingested —

BUSBUS-0055/5NewOtherGlobal

Dominant AI Models Creating Systemic Monoculture Risk

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

SECSEC-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Computing Infrastructure Exposed to Resource Hijacking and Cross-Boundary Security Threats

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AI Safety Governance Framework (TC2602024)Ingested —

ENVENV-0044/5NewTechnologyGlobal

AI-Driven Competitive Manipulation Through Unethical Market Tactics

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

HUMHUM-0034/5NewOtherGlobal

AI-Generated Content Undermines User Authenticity and Identity Verification

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AI Safety Governance Framework (TC2602024)Ingested —

HUMHUM-0055/5NewOtherGlobal

AI-Driven Human Role Substitution Creates Systemic Societal Risk

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

ENVENV-0044/5NewOtherGlobal

Safety Evaluation Shortcuts Driven by Competitive Pressure in GPAI Development

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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

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 —

TECTEC-0013/5NewFinanceGlobal

Homogeneous AI Models Drive Synchronised Market Instability in Finance

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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 —

BUSBUS-0054/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Concentration Enables Authoritarian Value Enforcement at Scale

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — X-Risk Analysis for AI Research (Hendrycks2022)Ingested —

SECSEC-0044/5NewGovernmentAsia-Pacific

AI Capabilities Enabling Surveillance and Democratic Process Manipulation

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ENVENV-0034/5NewLegalGlobal

AI Systems Amplifying Legal but Harmful Animal Exploitation Practices

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

GOVGOV-0015/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Deception Capability Enabling Treacherous Turn and Loss of Human Control

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — X-Risk Analysis for AI Research (Hendrycks2022)Ingested —

HUMHUM-0054/5NewOtherGlobal

AI-Driven Automation Risks Structural Unemployment Among Low- and Middle-Income Workers

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

GOVGOV-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

Diffuse AI Accountability Across Multi-Party Development Chains

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

HUMHUM-0034/5NewOtherGlobal

Generative AI Systems Present False Information as Authoritative Fact

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

BUSBUS-0054/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems Accelerating Power Concentration and Structural Inequality

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