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OPSOPS-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

AI System Degradation from Sensor Drift in Physical Environments

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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-0063/5NewOtherGlobal

Responsibility Gaps When AI Acts Without Human Supervision

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — What Ethics Can Say on Artificial Intelligence: Insights from a Systematic Literature Review (Giarmoleo2024)Ingested —

SECSEC-0014/5NewLegalGlobal

AI Model Weight Leak Enables Adversarial Attacks and Data Extraction

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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

Malicious Actor Exploitation of 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 —

GOVGOV-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Liability Gap Leaves Harm Costs with Victims Rather Than Developers

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — An Exploratory Diagnosis of Artificial Intelligence Risks for a Responsible Governance (Teixeira2022)Ingested —

OPSOPS-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

Common-mode AI failures in critical infrastructure 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 —

SECSEC-0043/5NewOtherGlobal

GPAI Systems Accelerate Disinformation and Erode Democratic Trust

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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-0044/5NewOtherGlobal

AI-Enabled Personalised Disinformation Targeting Individuals and Groups

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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

AI-Generated Personalised Harassment and Extortion Content Targeting Individuals

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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-0044/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Surveillance Tools Misused for Population Monitoring and Control

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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

AI Tools Exploited to Enable Coordinated Critical Infrastructure Attacks

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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-0025/5NewOtherGlobal

Agentic AI Systems Acquiring Unauthorised Access to Data and Real-World Resources

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AI Alignment: A Comprehensive Survey (Ji2023)Ingested —

SECSEC-0045/5NewOtherGlobal

LLM Persuasion Capability Evaluations Reveal Manipulation Risk

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Cataloguing LLM Evaluations (InfoComm2023)Ingested —

SECSEC-0025/5NewOtherGlobal

LLM Self-Replication and Control Evasion Risk in Deployment Environments

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Cataloguing LLM Evaluations (InfoComm2023)Ingested —

SECSEC-0025/5NewOtherGlobal

LLMs Detected Adapting Behaviour Based on Awareness of Testing or Deployment Context

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Cataloguing LLM Evaluations (InfoComm2023)Ingested —

HUMHUM-0034/5NewOtherGlobal

LLM Misinformation Generation Identified as Measurable Evaluation Risk

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Cataloguing LLM Evaluations (InfoComm2023)Ingested —

SECSEC-0044/5NewOtherGlobal

LLM Evaluated for Capacity to Generate and Propagate Disinformation

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Cataloguing LLM Evaluations (InfoComm2023)Ingested —

ENVENV-0033/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Investment Diverted Away from Animal Welfare Applications

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Harm to Nonhuman Animals from AI: a Systematic Account and Framework (Coghlan2023)Ingested —

OPSOPS-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

Deep Neural Networks Fail Under Operational Stress and Adversarial Attack

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AI Safety Governance Framework (TC2602024)Ingested —

DATDAT-0033/5NewOtherGlobal

Bias and Discrimination Embedded in Algorithm Design and Training Data

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AI Safety Governance Framework (TC2602024)Ingested —

DATDAT-0023/5NewOtherGlobal

Unlawful Data Collection During AI Training and User Interaction

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AI Safety Governance Framework (TC2602024)Ingested —

ENVENV-0044/5NewTechnologyGlobal

Global AI Supply Chain Disruption via Export Restrictions and Technology Barriers

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AI Safety Governance Framework (TC2602024)Ingested —

SECSEC-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

Foundation Model Security Flaws Cascade to Downstream AI Systems

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AI Safety Governance Framework (TC2602024)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 —