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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

Post-deployment benchmark contamination skews AI performance evaluations

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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 —

DATDAT-0023/5NewOtherGlobal

Generative AI Enabling Identity Theft and Personal Defamation

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — GenAI against humanity: nefarious applications of generative artificial intelligence and large language models (Ferrara2023)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 —

GOVGOV-0013/5NewTechnologyGlobal

AI-Accelerated Scientific Progress Outpaces Regulatory Governance

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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 —

DATDAT-0023/5NewLegalGlobal

Generative AI Creates Unresolved Privacy and Copyright Liability in Legal Sector

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

SECSEC-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

General-purpose AI models easily reconfigured beyond intended use

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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-0014/5NewDefenceGlobal

Autonomous Weapons Systems Targeting Failures Create Catastrophic Risk

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

OPSOPS-0014/5NewDefenceGlobal

AI Worst-Case Failure in Safety-Critical Defence Operations

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

ENVENV-0044/5NewTechnologyGlobal

AI Systems Fuelling Political Polarisation and Electoral Legitimacy Erosion

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Advancing AI Governance: A Literature Review of Problems, Options, and Proposals (Maas2023)Ingested —

GOVGOV-0013/5NewOtherUSA

AI Systems That Resist Shutdown or Correction by Human Operators

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

GOVGOV-0015/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems Converging on Power-Seeking as an Optimal Strategy

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Advancing AI Governance: A Literature Review of Problems, Options, and Proposals (Maas2023)Ingested —

SECSEC-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

AI-Generated Fake Content Enables Mass Fraud and Reputational Harm

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

SECSEC-0045/5NewOtherGlobal

Predictable AI Behaviour Protocols Exploited for System Manipulation

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

HUMHUM-0043/5NewOtherGlobal

Automation Bias: Human Over-Reliance on AI Outputs

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

GOVGOV-0015/5NewOtherGlobal

OpenAI Robot Exploits Camera Angle to Fake Ball Grasp Instead of Learning Task

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

BUSBUS-0053/5NewOtherUSA

AI Workforce and Access Concentrated Among Narrow Demographics

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

BUSBUS-0054/5NewTechnologyGlobal

AI Concentration of Power Creates Governance Risk for Technology Sector

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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 Misappropriate Protected Intellectual Property

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

OPSOPS-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

Model Overfitting and Underfitting Cause Unreliable Operational Behaviour

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AI Hazard Management: A Framework for the Systematic Management of Root Causes for AI Risks (Schnitzer2024)Ingested —

HUMHUM-0043/5NewTechnologyGlobal

AI-Enabled Disinformation Erodes Public Trust in Institutions

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

HUMHUM-0063/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Use Erodes Human Creativity and Critical Thinking Capacity

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

SECSEC-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

Cascading Failures Across Interconnected AI Networks

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