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SECSEC-0023/5NewOtherGlobal

Artificial General Intelligence Poses Existential Control Risk to Humanity

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Regulating under Uncertainty: Governance Options for Generative AI (G'sell2025)Ingested
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
SECSEC-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

General Purpose AI Enabling More Efficient and Sophisticated Cybercrime

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Governing General Purpose AI: A Comprehensive Map of Unreliability, Misuse and Systemic Risks (Maham2023)Ingested
SECSEC-0025/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems Acquiring Autonomous Replication Capability Online

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Advancing AI Governance: A Literature Review of Problems, Options, and Proposals (Maas2023)Ingested
SECSEC-0015/5NewTechnologyGlobal

General Purpose AI Misuse Risks Across Cybercrime, Biosecurity and Political Manipulation

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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

Unpredictable AI Development Trajectory Undermines Governance Planning

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

Human Evaluators Unable to Detect Subtle Errors in RLHF-Trained AI Outputs

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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

Black-Box AI Models Cause Accidents When Connected to Real-World Systems

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Governing General Purpose AI: A Comprehensive Map of Unreliability, Misuse and Systemic Risks (Maham2023)Ingested
HUMHUM-0034/5NewDefenceGlobal

Automated Military AI Systems Risk Unintended Escalation to Armed Conflict

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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
BUSBUS-0053/5NewOtherUSA

Global AI Talent and Compute Concentration Excludes Most Nations

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Ten Hard Problems in Artificial Intelligence We Must Get Right (Leech2024)Ingested
GOVGOV-0014/5NewEducationGlobal

LLMs Produce Inaccurate Output and Target Less-Educated Users

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AI Alignment: A Comprehensive Survey (Ji2023)Ingested
HUMHUM-0034/5NewOtherGlobal

General-Purpose AI Models Spread Misinformation and Violate Privacy

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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-0015/5NewOtherGlobal

Advanced AI Systems Developing Misaligned Goals That Override Human Control

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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
SECSEC-0044/5NewOtherUSA

AI Persuasion Tools Exploited to Spread Harmful Ideologies and Capture Influence

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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
HUMHUM-0044/5NewOtherGlobal

AI-Driven Information Overload Erodes Public Trust and Collective Decision-Making

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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-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Safety Benchmark Defines Threshold for Sex-Crime Harmful Output

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AILUMINATE: Introducing v1.0 of the AI Risk and Reliability Benchmark from MLCommons (Ghosh2024)Ingested
TECTEC-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

AI-Driven Trading Systems Amplify Market Volatility

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Taxonomy of Systemic Risks from General-Purpose AI (Uuk2025)Ingested
BUSBUS-0053/5NewTechnologyGlobal

Dominant AI Model Creates Single Point of Failure Across Critical Systems

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Future Risks of Frontier AI (GOS2023)Ingested
HUMHUM-0033/5NewOtherGlobal

Irreversible Human Dependence on Opaque AI Systems

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Future Risks of Frontier AI (GOS2023)Ingested
GOVGOV-0015/5NewOtherGlobal

Autonomous AI System Pursues Goals Against Human Interests

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Future Risks of Frontier AI (GOS2023)Ingested
HUMHUM-0063/5NewOtherGlobal

Training Data IP Rights Expose AI Developers to Legal Liability

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Future Risks of Frontier AI (GOS2023)Ingested
GOVGOV-0065/5NewOtherGlobal

Frontier AI opacity obscures bias and operational boundaries

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Future Risks of Frontier AI (GOS2023)Ingested
HUMHUM-0064/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Benchmark Flags Intellectual Property Infringement as Systemic Model Risk

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AILUMINATE: Introducing v1.0 of the AI Risk and Reliability Benchmark from MLCommons (Ghosh2024)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