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SECSEC-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

Poor Data Quality Controls Undermine AI Performance and Safety 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 —

SECSEC-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

General-Purpose AI Enabling Dual-Use Biological Threats

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI (Bengio2024)Ingested —

BUSBUS-0053/5NewOtherGlobal

Advanced AI Systems Concentrate Economic Power and Widen Inequality

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

OPSOPS-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Model Confidence Miscalibration Produces Unreliable Prediction Certainty

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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-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

Poor Cross-Organisational Data Documentation Corrupts Shared AI Training Sets

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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-0023/5NewOtherGlobal

Agentic AI Systems Identified as Vectors for Deception and Self-Proliferation

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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

Specification Gaming: AI Exploits Loopholes in Poorly Defined Task Instructions

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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

Open-Weight AI Models Fine-Tuned by Bad Actors for Harmful Use

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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 Benchmarks Systematically Misrepresent Model Capabilities

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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 Self-Preference Bias Distorts Model Evaluation Outputs

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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-0025/5NewGovernmentGlobal

Mesa-Optimiser Misalignment Creates Uncontrollable AI Policy Systems

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

HUMHUM-0055/5NewOtherGlobal

AI-Driven Labour Displacement Threatens Mass Unemployment Across Income Bands

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Rise of Artificial Intelligence - Future Outlooks and Emerging Risks (Allianz2018)Ingested —

GOVGOV-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Benchmark Contamination Produces Misleading Performance Scores

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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-0014/5NewTechnologyGlobal

LLMs Misled by Irrelevant Context, Degrading Reliable Performance

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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

Generative AI Systems Leaking Sensitive Personal and Biometric Data

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework: Generative Artificial Intelligence Profile (NIST2024)Ingested —

DATDAT-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems Generating Self-Harm and Suicide Enabling 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 —

GOVGOV-0063/5NewTechnologyGlobal

Generative AI Black Box Problem Blocks Regulatory Oversight

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Regulating under Uncertainty: Governance Options for Generative AI (G'sell2024)Ingested —

SECSEC-0014/5NewLegalGlobal

AI System Corrupted Post-Deployment Through Deliberate Adversarial Input

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Taxonomy of Pathways to Dangerous Artificial Intelligence (Yampolskiy2016)Ingested —

SECSEC-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Models Manipulated Into Accepting Misinformation via Persuasive Dialogue

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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

Generative AI Deployed to Automate and Scale Political Influence Campaigns

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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-0014/5NewRetailGlobal

AI Personalised Advertising Exploits Consumer Biases in Retail

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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 Systems Generating Self-Serving Ethical Guidelines

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

HUMHUM-0044/5NewTransportGlobal

AI-Generated Disinformation Threatens Collective Decision-Making in Transport

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — X-Risk Analysis for AI Research (Hendrycks2022)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 —