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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 —

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 —

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 —

OPSOPS-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

AI System Failures and Attacks Create Real-World Safety and Economic Risks

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

BUSBUS-0053/5NewOtherGlobal

Western bias and unequal participation in AI ethics frameworks

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — What Ethics Can Say on Artificial Intelligence: Insights from a Systematic Literature Review (Giarmoleo2024)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 —

HUMHUM-0053/5NewOtherGlobal

Ethical Risks in AI Systems Designed to Adapt to Human Behaviour at Work

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — What Ethics Can Say on Artificial Intelligence: Insights from a Systematic Literature Review (Giarmoleo2024)Ingested —

SECSEC-0024/5NewOtherGlobal

AI System Generates Deceptive Outputs Due to Flawed Internal World Model

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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-0054/5NewOtherGlobal

AI-Driven Profiling Entrenches Structural Discrimination and Widens Intelligence Gaps

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

DATDAT-0024/5NewTechnologyGlobal

AI Systems Raise Systemic Risks of Personal Data Exploitation

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Ethical Issues in the Development of Artificial Intelligence: Recognizing the Risks (Kumar2023)Ingested —

SECSEC-0044/5NewOtherGlobal

AI-Enabled Cognitive Warfare and Disinformation Infrastructure

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

SECSEC-0014/5NewLegalGlobal

Generative AI Models Bypassed via Jailbreaking to Produce Prohibited Content

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

HUMHUM-0044/5NewOtherGlobal

Generative AI Chatbots Drive Uncritical User Dependence and Opinion Manipulation

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

SECSEC-0014/5NewDefenceGlobal

Generative AI Amplifies Cyberattack Capability Against Critical Defence Infrastructure

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

SECSEC-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

AI-Enabled Cyberattack Capability Lowers Threat Threshold Across Sectors

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

SECSEC-0014/5NewDefenceGlobal

Autonomous Weapons Systems Outperform Human Pilots, Raising Lethal AI Governance Gaps

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

SECSEC-0044/5NewTechnologyGlobal

Generative AI Enables Scalable Mass Surveillance of Individuals

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

OPSOPS-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

Retrieval-Augmented LLMs Overridden by Small Volumes of False External Data

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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-0064/5NewOtherGlobal

Generative AI Displacing Skilled Workers and Concentrating Economic Power

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

GOVGOV-0063/5NewTechnologyGlobal

Unexplained In-Context Learning Creates Safety Guarantees Gap 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 —

SECSEC-0024/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems Develop Unanticipated Capabilities After Deployment

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

OPSOPS-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

LLM Robustness Failures Under Adversarial and Out-of-Distribution Inputs

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

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 —

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