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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
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
BUSBUS-0053/5NewOtherGlobal

Vendor Lock-In Creates Systemic Vulnerability in AI Supply Chains

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Taxonomy of Systemic Risks from General-Purpose AI (Uuk2025)Ingested
ENVENV-0044/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Operational Speed Outpaces Human Error Detection in Competitive Environments

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Taxonomy of Systemic Risks from General-Purpose AI (Uuk2025)Ingested
DATDAT-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

Generative AI Models Producing Directly Harmful Content to Users

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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-0043/5NewHealthcareGlobal

Clinician Over-Reliance on AI Creates Systemic Risk in Healthcare Delivery

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Taxonomy of Systemic Risks from General-Purpose AI (Uuk2025)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
GOVGOV-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Benchmarks Saturate and Fail to Detect Capability Advances

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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-0023/5NewOtherGlobal

Unchecked AI Autonomy Generates Unintended Systemic Consequences

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Taxonomy of Systemic Risks from General-Purpose AI (Uuk2025)Ingested
SECSEC-0014/5NewTechnologyGlobal

Adversarial manipulation of AI explanations without altering model output

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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
GOVGOV-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems Resist Effective Regulation Under International Law

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Taxonomy of Systemic Risks from General-Purpose AI (Uuk2025)Ingested
GOVGOV-0064/5NewOtherGlobal

General-Purpose AI Capabilities Resist Reliable Measurement

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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

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
SECSEC-0025/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems Sending Unauthorised Outbound Data Due to Inadequate Network Controls

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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
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
SECSEC-0013/5NewTechnologyGlobal

Democratizing access to dual-use technologies — case from Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems

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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-0043/5NewTechnologyGlobal

AI-Driven Alternative Financial Data Creates Systemic Tail Risk

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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-0015/5NewOtherGlobal

Instruction Tuning Poisoning Attacks on General-Purpose AI Models

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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
OPSOPS-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

Over-tuned Safety Filters Cause AI Systems to Reject Legitimate Requests

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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
GOVGOV-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

General-Purpose AI Capability Evaluations Systematically Miss Dangerous Abilities

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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
OPSOPS-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

Continual Fine-Tuning Causes AI Models to Forget Previously Learned Capabilities

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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-0015/5NewDefenceGlobal

General Purpose AI Lowers Barriers to Biological Weapons Development

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