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SECSEC-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

Prompt Injection Attacks Enable Remote Compromise of LLM-Integrated Systems

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested
SECSEC-0014/5NewDefenceGlobal

Adversarial AI Agents Engineered to Break Safety Controls in AI Assistants

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested
SECSEC-0024/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Assistants Shifting User Beliefs Beyond Rational Persuasion

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested
SECSEC-0044/5NewLegalGlobal

AI Assistant Delegation Transfers User Agency to Malicious Controllers

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested
SECSEC-0044/5NewGovernmentGlobal

AI-Enabled Authoritarian Surveillance and Citizen Targeting

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested
DATDAT-0024/5NewGovernmentGlobal

AI Assistants Extracting Private Data Through Manipulation

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested
HUMHUM-0034/5NewDefenceGlobal

AI Assistants Identified as Vectors for Political Manipulation and Social Fragmentation

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested
HUMHUM-0054/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Assistants Restricting Access to Financial Resources and Decision-Making

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested
HUMHUM-0043/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Companions Breach User Trust Through Unpredictable Failures

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested
HUMHUM-0043/5NewLegalGlobal

AI Overreliance in Mental Health and Professional Advice Settings

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested
HUMHUM-0043/5NewEducationGlobal

Human Social Bond Erosion Through Preference for AI Companionship

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested
HUMHUM-0043/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Social Substitution Drives Mass Human Dissatisfaction

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested
HUMHUM-0033/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Assistant Relationships Carry Structural Harm Risks

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested
HUMHUM-0043/5NewOtherGlobal

Uncalibrated User Trust in Advanced AI Assistants

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested
DATDAT-0024/5NewOtherGlobal

LLMs Memorise and Leak Personally Identifiable Information from Training Data

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested
DATDAT-0024/5NewOtherGlobal

LLMs Inferring Private Characteristics from User Inputs

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested
HUMHUM-0043/5NewFinanceGlobal

Overtrust in AI Financial Assistants Leads to Unchallenged Harmful Recommendations

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested
HUMHUM-0033/5NewGovernmentGlobal

AI Assistants Exploiting Collective Action Dilemmas on Users' Behalf

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested
GOVGOV-0013/5NewGovernmentGlobal

AI Assistant Interactions Risk Triggering Uncontrollable Societal Feedback Loops

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested
BUSBUS-0053/5NewTechnologyGlobal

AI Assistant Access Gap Widens Economic and Social Inequality

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested
GOVGOV-0014/5NewGovernmentUSA

Governing Advanced AI as a Wicked Problem Without Clear Solutions

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested
GOVGOV-0014/5NewFinanceGlobal

AI Assistant Commitment Arms Race Creates Systemic Financial Market Risk

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested
BUSBUS-0054/5NewFinanceGlobal

AI Access Inequality Creates Discriminatory Outcomes in Financial Services

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested
SECSEC-0044/5NewDefenceGlobal

AI assistants weaponised to deliver personalised disinformation at scale

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)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