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SECSEC-0025/5NewOtherGlobal

AGI Subagent Proliferation Evades Shutdown Controls

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

DATDAT-0033/5NewOtherGlobal

General-Purpose AI Systems Amplify Social and Political Bias at Scale

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

GOVGOV-0015/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Agents Shown to Develop Power-Seeking Incentives

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — X-Risk Analysis for AI Research (Hendrycks2022)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 —

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 —

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 —

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 —

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 —

DATDAT-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

Generative AI Enables Mass Production of CSAM and Non-Consensual Intimate Images

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework: Generative Artificial Intelligence Profile (NIST2024)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 —

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 —

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 —

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-0044/5NewEducationGlobal

AI-Generated Misinformation Degrades Student Learning and Institutional Trust

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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