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ENVENV-0044/5NewOtherGlobal

Competitive Pressure Drives Safety Shortcuts in AI Development

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

AI Systems Without Moral Reasoning Produce Harmful Decisions

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

AI Systems Developing Autonomous Motivations Beyond Designer Intent

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

AI Training and Data Infrastructure Drives Unsustainable Energy Consumption

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Taxonomy of Systemic Risks from General-Purpose AI (Uuk2025)Ingested
ENVENV-0043/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Superpower Race Destabilises International Relations

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

AI Supply Chain Labour Exploitation in Low-Income Countries

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

General-Purpose AI Dual-Use Risk Creates Regulatory Blind Spots

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Taxonomy of Systemic Risks from General-Purpose AI (Uuk2025)Ingested
GOVGOV-0063/5NewOtherGlobal

Opacity in AI Systems Prevents Reliable Behaviour Prediction

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

Adversarial Input Vulnerabilities in General-Purpose AI Systems

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

Winner-Take-All Concentration Risk in General-Purpose AI Development

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

Adversarial Input Attacks Exploit AI Model Weaknesses at Inference

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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
TECTEC-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems Reinforcing Market Trends and Amplifying Financial Bubbles

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Taxonomy of Systemic Risks from General-Purpose AI (Uuk2025)Ingested
SECSEC-0024/5NewOtherGlobal

Fine-tuning unlocks unanticipated capabilities in deployed 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
GOVGOV-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

LLM Evaluators Producing Biased or Incorrect Assessments of Other 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
DATDAT-0024/5NewOtherGlobal

Personal Data Harvested as Default ML Training Input Without Consent Controls

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Survey of Artificial Intelligence Challenges: Analyzing the Definitions, Relationships, and Evolutions (Saghiri2022)Ingested
GOVGOV-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

Benchmark Contamination via Exposed Annotation Guidelines Inflates AI Performance Claims

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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

Cross-lingual Training Data Contamination Undermines AI Benchmark Reliability

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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
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-0015/5NewOtherGlobal

Text Encoding Jailbreaks Bypass AI Safety Training

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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 Benchmark Gaps Leave Hidden Model Capabilities Undetected

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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-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

Multimodal AI Systems Create Exploitable Security Vulnerabilities Across Input Channels

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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

AI Amplification of CBRN Weapon Effectiveness and Failures

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

AI Systems Exposed to Harmful Content via Malicious External Tool Integration

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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-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