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HUMHUM-0033/5NewEducationGlobal

AI Disruption to Employment, Fertility and Education Norms

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AI Safety Governance Framework (TC2602024)Ingested
GOVGOV-0015/5NewTechnologyGlobal

AI Autonomy and Control Loss Risk in Emerging Governance Frameworks

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AI Safety Governance Framework (TC2602024)Ingested
SECSEC-0044/5NewTechnologyGlobal

Generative AI Enabling Systemic Threats to Democratic and Critical Infrastructure

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — GenAI against humanity: nefarious applications of generative artificial intelligence and large language models (Ferrara2023)Ingested
SECSEC-0044/5NewOtherGlobal

Generative AI Enabling Large-Scale Information Manipulation and Deceptive Content

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — GenAI against humanity: nefarious applications of generative artificial intelligence and large language models (Ferrara2023)Ingested
GOVGOV-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Model Misalignment Creates Unpredictable Governance Risk

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Regulating under Uncertainty: Governance Options for Generative AI (G'sell2024)Ingested
SECSEC-0014/5NewTechnologyGlobal

Generative AI Exploited to Produce Non-Consensual Deepfake Sexual Images

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Regulating under Uncertainty: Governance Options for Generative AI (G'sell2024)Ingested
SECSEC-0014/5NewDefenceGlobal

Generative AI Lowers Barrier to Biological Weapons Development

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Regulating under Uncertainty: Governance Options for Generative AI (G'sell2024)Ingested
BUSBUS-0054/5NewDefenceGlobal

AI-Driven Power Concentration in Defence Creates Systemic Governance Risk

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

Generative AI Enables Mass Production of Targeted Financial Disinformation

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Regulating under Uncertainty: Governance Options for Generative AI (G'sell2024)Ingested
DATDAT-0034/5NewGovernmentGlobal

Generative AI Value Embedding Encodes Developer Ideology Into Public-Sector Tools

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Regulating under Uncertainty: Governance Options for Generative AI (G'sell2024)Ingested
DATDAT-0033/5NewOtherGlobal

Biased Training Data Causes Discriminatory Generative AI Outputs

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Regulating under Uncertainty: Governance Options for Generative AI (G'sell2024)Ingested
HUMHUM-0044/5NewOtherGlobal

Human Overreliance on Generative AI Leads to Uncritical Acceptance of Errors

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Regulating under Uncertainty: Governance Options for Generative AI (G'sell2024)Ingested
HUMHUM-0043/5NewTechnologyGlobal

AI and Automation Systems Driving User Alienation and Social Isolation

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Collaborative, Human-Centred Taxonomy of AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Harms (Abercrombie2024)Ingested
HUMHUM-0043/5NewTechnologyGlobal

Emotional Dependence on Generative AI Tools

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Regulating under Uncertainty: Governance Options for Generative AI (G'sell2024)Ingested
HUMHUM-0064/5NewOtherGlobal

Generative AI Models Trained on Copyrighted Works Without Authorisation

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Regulating under Uncertainty: Governance Options for Generative AI (G'sell2024)Ingested
DATDAT-0024/5NewOtherGlobal

Generative AI Training Data Exposes Personal Information Without Consent

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Regulating under Uncertainty: Governance Options for Generative AI (G'sell2024)Ingested
HUMHUM-0054/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Automation Threatens 27% of Jobs With Majority of Workers Fearing Displacement

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Regulating under Uncertainty: Governance Options for Generative AI (G'sell2024)Ingested
BUSBUS-0054/5NewTechnologyGlobal

Generative AI Market Concentration Entrenches Big Tech Dominance

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Regulating under Uncertainty: Governance Options for Generative AI (G'sell2024)Ingested
ENVENV-0033/5NewOtherGlobal

Generative AI Training Causes Adverse Environmental and Ecosystem Impacts

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework: Generative Artificial Intelligence Profile (NIST2024)Ingested
HUMHUM-0043/5NewOtherGlobal

Human-AI Configuration Risks: Anthropomorphism, Bias and Over-Reliance

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework: Generative Artificial Intelligence Profile (NIST2024)Ingested
SECSEC-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

Generative AI Lowers Barriers to Offensive Cyber Operations

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework: Generative Artificial Intelligence Profile (NIST2024)Ingested
DATDAT-0034/5NewHealthcareGlobal

Healthcare AI Systems Deliver Biased Outputs Due to Unrepresentative Training Data

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI (Bengio2024)Ingested
SECSEC-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

AGI Systems Lack Robust Defences Against Adversarial Manipulation

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