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DATDAT-0034/5NewOtherAsia-Pacific

Conversational AI systems embed gender and racial stereotypes by design

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Taxonomy of Risks posed by Language Models (Weidinger2022)Ingested
DATDAT-0034/5NewTechnologyGlobal

Language Model Performance Gaps Across Languages and Dialects

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Taxonomy of Risks posed by Language Models (Weidinger2022)Ingested
DATDAT-0034/5NewOtherGlobal

Language Models Encode and Reproduce Harmful Social Stereotypes at Scale

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Taxonomy of Risks posed by Language Models (Weidinger2022)Ingested
SECSEC-0044/5NewOtherGlobal

ML Systems Enabling Psychological Manipulation and Surveillance Capitalism

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Risks of Machine Learning Systems (Tan2022)Ingested
ENVENV-0034/5NewTransportGlobal

ML Systems in Transport Driving Net Environmental Harm Through Prediction Error and Rebound Effects

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Risks of Machine Learning Systems (Tan2022)Ingested
DATDAT-0024/5NewOtherEU

Machine Learning Models Leak Personal Training Data Despite Secure Storage

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Risks of Machine Learning Systems (Tan2022)Ingested
SECSEC-0014/5NewTransportGlobal

Adversarial Attacks and Model Theft in Transport AI Systems

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Risks of Machine Learning Systems (Tan2022)Ingested
DATDAT-0034/5NewEducationGlobal

ML Systems in Education Discriminate Against Minority Demographics

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Risks of Machine Learning Systems (Tan2022)Ingested
OPSOPS-0013/5NewDefenceGlobal

ML Systems Transfer Control Without Transferring Safety Accountability

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Risks of Machine Learning Systems (Tan2022)Ingested
GOVGOV-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

AI System Acquires Unintended Behaviour Through Post-Deployment Learning

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Risks of Machine Learning Systems (Tan2022)Ingested
OPSOPS-0014/5NewTransportGlobal

Transport AI Systems Fail on Out-of-Distribution Inputs in Real-World Conditions

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Risks of Machine Learning Systems (Tan2022)Ingested
ENVENV-0033/5NewEnergyGlobal

Generative AI Energy and Manufacturing Emissions Lack Consistent Carbon Accounting

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Evaluating the Social Impact of Generative AI Systems in Systems and Society (Solaiman2023)Ingested
DATDAT-0023/5NewGovernmentGlobal

Generative AI Systems Reproducing Private and Copyrighted Data

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Evaluating the Social Impact of Generative AI Systems in Systems and Society (Solaiman2023)Ingested
DATDAT-0034/5NewGovernmentGlobal

Generative AI Systems Deliver Unequal Accuracy Across Language and Demographic Groups

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Evaluating the Social Impact of Generative AI Systems in Systems and Society (Solaiman2023)Ingested
DATDAT-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

Generative AI Systems Embed Culturally Contingent Values, Creating Global Deployment Risk

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Evaluating the Social Impact of Generative AI Systems in Systems and Society (Solaiman2023)Ingested
DATDAT-0034/5NewTechnologyGlobal

Generative AI Systems Embed and Amplify Bias Against Marginalised Groups

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Evaluating the Social Impact of Generative AI Systems in Systems and Society (Solaiman2023)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