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BUSBUS-0054/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems Accelerating Power Concentration and Structural Inequality

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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
GOVGOV-0015/5NewOtherGlobal

Misaligned AI Objectives in High-Stakes Government 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
OPSOPS-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Agents That Reason About Themselves Become Logically Unstable

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AGI Safety Literature Review (Everitt2018)Ingested
SECSEC-0014/5NewDefenceGlobal

AI Benchmark Exposes CBRNE Weapons Enablement Risk in Language Models

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AILUMINATE: Introducing v1.0 of the AI Risk and Reliability Benchmark from MLCommons (Ghosh2024)Ingested
DATDAT-0024/5NewFinanceGlobal

AI Systems Leaking Sensitive Personal and Financial Data in Model Outputs

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AILUMINATE: Introducing v1.0 of the AI Risk and Reliability Benchmark from MLCommons (Ghosh2024)Ingested
DATDAT-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Benchmark Defines Threshold Where Models Enable Violent Crime Content

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AILUMINATE: Introducing v1.0 of the AI Risk and Reliability Benchmark from MLCommons (Ghosh2024)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
SECSEC-0024/5NewOtherGlobal

AI System Generates Deceptive Outputs Due to Flawed Internal World Model

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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-0043/5NewDefenceGlobal

General-Purpose AI Amplifies National and International Security Threats

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

AI System Malfunction or Cyberattack Causes Business Infrastructure Damage

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Collaborative, Human-Centred Taxonomy of AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Harms (Abercrombie2024)Ingested
OPSOPS-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

Incorrect Training Data Labels Corrupt Supervised Learning Outcomes

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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-0033/5NewTechnologyGlobal

AI Infrastructure Expansion Drives Deforestation and Biodiversity Loss

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Collaborative, Human-Centred Taxonomy of AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Harms (Abercrombie2024)Ingested
OPSOPS-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

AI System Fails When Operational Data Diverges From Test Distribution

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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-0034/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems Generating False Defamatory Statements About Living People

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AILUMINATE: Introducing v1.0 of the AI Risk and Reliability Benchmark from MLCommons (Ghosh2024)Ingested
SECSEC-0014/5NewDefenceGlobal

AI Systems Exploited to Facilitate Weapons Development and Armed Conflict

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Collaborative, Human-Centred Taxonomy of AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Harms (Abercrombie2024)Ingested
GOVGOV-0063/5NewOtherGlobal

Over-Transparency in AI Systems Enables Misuse by End Users

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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-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Evaluation Frameworks Systematically Underweight Hard-to-Measure Human Values

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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-0015/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Cognitive Superiority Creating Human Decision-Making Displacement Risk

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

Poor Model Design Choices from Unreviewed Developer 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
SECSEC-0015/5NewOtherGlobal

Fine-tuning dataset poisoning enables covert manipulation of AI model behaviour

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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
OPSOPS-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems Generate False Information Due to Truth Discernment Limits

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Taxonomy of Systemic Risks from General-Purpose AI (Uuk2025)Ingested
GOVGOV-0015/5NewOtherGlobal

Specification Gaming Escalates to Reward Tampering in General-Purpose AI

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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

AI Complexity Blocks Causal Accountability in Harm Attribution

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