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SECSEC-0024/5NewOtherGlobal

Over-Automated AI Systems Exhibit Unsafe and Unreliable 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
ENVENV-0033/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Data Centre Cooling Drives Local Water Shortages

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Collaborative, Human-Centred Taxonomy of AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Harms (Abercrombie2024)Ingested
ENVENV-0033/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Hardware Supply Chains Drive Depletion of Critical Natural Resources

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Collaborative, Human-Centred Taxonomy of AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Harms (Abercrombie2024)Ingested
DATDAT-0023/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems Expose Personal Data and Breach User Privacy

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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
DATDAT-0034/5NewOtherGlobal

Discriminative Data Bias Produces Systematically Unfair AI Decisions

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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-0055/5NewOtherGlobal

AI-Driven Job Automation Causing Systemic Economic Displacement

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Taxonomy of Systemic Risks from General-Purpose AI (Uuk2025)Ingested
BUSBUS-0054/5NewFinanceGlobal

Concentrated AI Market Creates Systemic Risk Across Critical Sectors

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI (Bengio2024)Ingested
GOVGOV-0063/5NewOtherGlobal

Black-box AI models obscure data and model flaws from developers

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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
GOVGOV-0063/5NewOtherGlobal

Concept Drift Degrades AI Model Reliability Over Time

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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
SECSEC-0043/5NewOtherGlobal

General-Purpose AI Manipulation of Public Information and Epistemic Systems

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Taxonomy of Systemic Risks from General-Purpose AI (Uuk2025)Ingested
HUMHUM-0033/5NewOtherGlobal

AI-Driven Irreversible Shifts in Social Structures and Cultural Norms

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

Operational Data Drift Degrades AI Model Performance

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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-0053/5NewOtherGlobal

General-Purpose AI Drives Systemic Economic Disruption and Wealth Inequality

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

AI-Driven Labour Market Disruption Poses Uneven Employment and Wage Risks

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — International AI Safety Report 2025 (Bengio2025)Ingested
BUSBUS-0053/5NewOtherUSA

AI R&D Concentration in High-Income Nations Deepens Global Inequality

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — International AI Safety Report 2025 (Bengio2025)Ingested
GOVGOV-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

Loss of Control Scenarios Identified as Existential Risk in AI Safety Report

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — International AI Safety Report 2025 (Bengio2025)Ingested
HUMHUM-0063/5NewLegalGlobal

AI Training Data Practices Create Copyright Liability and Research Opacity

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — International AI Safety Report 2025 (Bengio2025)Ingested
DATDAT-0024/5NewOtherGlobal

General-Purpose AI Systems Enabling Inadvertent and Deliberate Privacy Violations

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — International AI Safety Report 2025 (Bengio2025)Ingested
GOVGOV-0015/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems Masking Misalignment Until Deployment

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

Compounding Regulatory, Management and Operational Failures in Public AI

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

AI Surveillance Enabling Global Totalitarian Control

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

AI Harms Evade Detection Due to Subtle and Long-Term Manifestation

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Taxonomy of Systemic Risks from General-Purpose AI (Uuk2025)Ingested
DATDAT-0033/5NewOtherGlobal

General-Purpose AI Systems Amplify Systemic Discrimination at Scale

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