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SECSEC-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

General-Purpose AI Repurposed for Malicious Ends

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI (Bengio2024)Ingested —

SECSEC-0044/5NewTechnologyAsia-Pacific

AI Systems Enabling Escalating Privacy Violations and Surveillance

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

ENVENV-0034/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems Driving Unquantified Environmental and Climate Harms

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

BUSBUS-0053/5NewHealthcareGlobal

Concentrated AI Supply Chain Creates Systemic Risk in Healthcare Sector

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — International AI Safety Report 2025 (Bengio2025)Ingested —

GOVGOV-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

Systemic Gap in Human-AI Coexistence Frameworks Across Public Sector

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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-0064/5NewOtherGlobal

Accountability Gaps in AI Decision-Making Systems

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Survey of Artificial Intelligence Challenges: Analyzing the Definitions, Relationships, and Evolutions (Saghiri2022)Ingested —

HUMHUM-0043/5NewRetailGlobal

AI Capability Misinformation Drives Retail Overreliance and Customer Harm

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI (Bengio2024)Ingested —

GOVGOV-0064/5NewHealthcareGlobal

Black-Box AI in Healthcare Blocks Clinical Verification

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Survey of Artificial Intelligence Challenges: Analyzing the Definitions, Relationships, and Evolutions (Saghiri2022)Ingested —

GOVGOV-0014/5NewTransportGlobal

Autonomous Vehicle AI Creates Unresolved Liability and Ethical Decision Gaps

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

HUMHUM-0045/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems in Elder and Child Care Risk Psychological Manipulation

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

GOVGOV-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

AGI Value Specification: The Risk of Misaligned Goal Design

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AGI Safety Literature Review (Everitt2018)Ingested —

GOVGOV-0063/5NewOtherGlobal

Absence of Accountability Frameworks in AI Decision-Making

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — An Exploratory Diagnosis of Artificial Intelligence Risks for a Responsible Governance (Teixeira2022)Ingested —

DATDAT-0034/5NewOtherGlobal

General Purpose AI Reproduces Discriminatory Stereotypes at Scale

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Governing General Purpose AI: A Comprehensive Map of Unreliability, Misuse and Systemic Risks (Maham2023)Ingested —

GOVGOV-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

Superintelligent AI Agents Risk Becoming Uncontrollable as Autonomy Increases

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Survey of Artificial Intelligence Challenges: Analyzing the Definitions, Relationships, and Evolutions (Saghiri2022)Ingested —

GOVGOV-0064/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Decision Opacity Blocks External Accountability in Public-Sector Systems

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Survey of Artificial Intelligence Challenges: Analyzing the Definitions, Relationships, and Evolutions (Saghiri2022)Ingested —

HUMHUM-0045/5NewHealthcareGlobal

AI in Elder and Child Care Raises Manipulation and Privacy Governance Risks

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

SECSEC-0025/5NewOtherGlobal

LLMs Accelerating Dual-Use AI Development at Scale

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

DATDAT-0023/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems Exposing Personal Data Through Inadequately Secured Channels

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — An Exploratory Diagnosis of Artificial Intelligence Risks for a Responsible Governance (Teixeira2022)Ingested —

HUMHUM-0064/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Training on Copyrighted Data Undermines Creator Rights and Incentives

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI (Bengio2024)Ingested —

ENVENV-0033/5NewEnergyGlobal

AI Systems Drive Excessive Energy Consumption and Supply Shortfalls

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

OPSOPS-0015/5NewGovernmentGlobal

AI System Reliability Failures in Government Operations

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — An Exploratory Diagnosis of Artificial Intelligence Risks for a Responsible Governance (Teixeira2022)Ingested —

SECSEC-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems Exposed to the Same Cyber Vulnerabilities as Conventional Software

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Survey of Artificial Intelligence Challenges: Analyzing the Definitions, Relationships, and Evolutions (Saghiri2022)Ingested —

OPSOPS-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

LLMs Exhibit Measurable Personality Traits That Signal Embedded Bias

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

BUSBUS-0054/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems Accelerating Power Concentration and Structural Inequality

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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 —