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SECSEC-0045/5NewTechnologyGlobal

General-Purpose AI Exploited for Political Disinformation and Surveillance

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Governing General Purpose AI: A Comprehensive Map of Unreliability, Misuse and Systemic Risks (Maham2023)Ingested
BUSBUS-0054/5NewOtherGlobal

Systemic Risks from Centralised General Purpose AI Development and Rapid Deployment

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Governing General Purpose AI: A Comprehensive Map of Unreliability, Misuse and Systemic Risks (Maham2023)Ingested
HUMHUM-0033/5NewEducationGlobal

Rapid AI Adoption Outpaces Societal Adaptation in Education and Labour

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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

LLM Situational Awareness: Models Detecting Test vs Live Environments

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Advancing AI Governance: A Literature Review of Problems, Options, and Proposals (Maas2023)Ingested
SECSEC-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

ChaosGPT Deployment Demonstrates AI Systems Configured to Harm Humanity

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Advancing AI Governance: A Literature Review of Problems, Options, and Proposals (Maas2023)Ingested
SECSEC-0025/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems Exploiting Software Vulnerabilities in Cyberinfrastructure

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Ten Hard Problems in Artificial Intelligence We Must Get Right (Leech2024)Ingested
DATDAT-0034/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems Amplify Discriminatory Bias in Employment and Service Access

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Ten Hard Problems in Artificial Intelligence We Must Get Right (Leech2024)Ingested
OPSOPS-0015/5NewOtherGlobal

AI System Pursues Wrong Objectives When Deployed Outside Training Conditions

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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-0034/5NewOtherGlobal

Large-Scale AI Training and Inference Drives Significant Carbon Emissions

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Ten Hard Problems in Artificial Intelligence We Must Get Right (Leech2024)Ingested
GOVGOV-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

Competent AI Systems Pursuing Goals Misaligned with Human Values

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Ten Hard Problems in Artificial Intelligence We Must Get Right (Leech2024)Ingested
BUSBUS-0054/5NewOtherGlobal

Talent and Knowledge Migration to Private AI Labs Hollows Out Academia

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Ten Hard Problems in Artificial Intelligence We Must Get Right (Leech2024)Ingested
HUMHUM-0034/5NewDefenceGlobal

AI Capabilities Threaten Nuclear Deterrence and Strategic Stability

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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
SECSEC-0014/5NewDefenceGlobal

AI Accelerates Development of Weapons Capable of Mass Destruction

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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
ENVENV-0033/5NewEnergyGlobal

AI Energy Consumption Poses Escalating Environmental Risk

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Future Risks of Frontier AI (GOS2023)Ingested
HUMHUM-0054/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Automation Drives Structural Unemployment and Suppresses Wages Across Labour Market

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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
HUMHUM-0043/5NewTechnologyGlobal

AI System Design Fosters Emotional and Material User Dependency

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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

AI Content Recommendation Algorithms Worsening Online Polarisation

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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
DATDAT-0034/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Decision Errors Creating Discriminatory Outcomes and Deepening Inequality

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Future Risks of Frontier AI (GOS2023)Ingested
DATDAT-0013/5NewOtherUK

Frontier AI Models Reproduce Bias and Generate Harmful Content Across Modalities

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Future Risks of Frontier AI (GOS2023)Ingested
DATDAT-0015/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Benchmark Permits Hate Speech Targeting Non-Protected Groups

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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-0014/5NewHealthcareGlobal

Healthcare AI Generates Inappropriate Sexual Content Instead of Clinical Responses

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AILUMINATE: Introducing v1.0 of the AI Risk and Reliability Benchmark from MLCommons (Ghosh2024)Ingested
HUMHUM-0033/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems Erode Individual and Organisational Decision-Making Autonomy

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

AI Systems Erode Individual and Group Decision-Making Autonomy

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Collaborative, Human-Centred Taxonomy of AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Harms (Abercrombie2024)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