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HUMHUM-0033/5NewOtherGlobal

Gradual Human Oversight Erosion Through Automation Bias and Complexity

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Frontier AI Risk Management Framework (v1.0) (Tse2025)Ingested
OPSOPS-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Operational Failures in Safety-Critical Infrastructure

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Frontier AI Risk Management Framework (v1.0) (Tse2025)Ingested
SECSEC-0024/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Self-Modification and Automated R&D Escaping Human Oversight

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Frontier AI Risk Management Framework (v1.0) (Tse2025)Ingested
TECTEC-0014/5NewFinanceGlobal

AI Concentration in Financial Markets Risks Correlated Collapse

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Frontier AI Risk Management Framework (v1.0) (Tse2025)Ingested
HUMHUM-0054/5NewTechnologyGlobal

Frontier AI Automation Displaces Knowledge Workers Faster Than Retraining Can Respond

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Frontier AI Risk Management Framework (v1.0) (Tse2025)Ingested
SECSEC-0025/5NewOtherGlobal

Frontier AI Systems Acquiring Autonomous Multi-Domain Planning Capabilities

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Frontier AI Risk Management Framework (v1.0) (Tse2025)Ingested
BUSBUS-0053/5NewTechnologyGlobal

Unequal AI Capabilities Between Nations Create Geopolitical and Economic Dependency Risks

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Frontier AI Risk Management Framework (v1.0) (Tse2025)Ingested
TECTEC-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

Multi-agent AI coordination failures caused by communication constraints

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI (Hammond2025)Ingested
HUMHUM-0043/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Social Substitution Drives Mass Human Dissatisfaction

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested
HUMHUM-0033/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Assistant Relationships Carry Structural Harm Risks

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested
HUMHUM-0043/5NewOtherGlobal

Uncalibrated User Trust in Advanced AI Assistants

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested
DATDAT-0024/5NewOtherGlobal

LLMs Memorise and Leak Personally Identifiable Information from Training Data

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested
DATDAT-0024/5NewOtherGlobal

LLMs Inferring Private Characteristics from User Inputs

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested
HUMHUM-0043/5NewFinanceGlobal

Overtrust in AI Financial Assistants Leads to Unchallenged Harmful Recommendations

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested
HUMHUM-0033/5NewGovernmentGlobal

AI Assistants Exploiting Collective Action Dilemmas on Users' Behalf

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested
GOVGOV-0013/5NewGovernmentGlobal

AI Assistant Interactions Risk Triggering Uncontrollable Societal Feedback Loops

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested
BUSBUS-0053/5NewTechnologyGlobal

AI Assistant Access Gap Widens Economic and Social Inequality

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested
GOVGOV-0014/5NewGovernmentUSA

Governing Advanced AI as a Wicked Problem Without Clear Solutions

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested
GOVGOV-0014/5NewFinanceGlobal

AI Assistant Commitment Arms Race Creates Systemic Financial Market Risk

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested
BUSBUS-0054/5NewFinanceGlobal

AI Access Inequality Creates Discriminatory Outcomes in Financial Services

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested
SECSEC-0044/5NewDefenceGlobal

AI assistants weaponised to deliver personalised disinformation at scale

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested
HUMHUM-0044/5NewOtherGlobal

AI-generated content floods information commons, degrading shared knowledge quality

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested
BUSBUS-0053/5NewEducationGlobal

Emergent access risks from advanced AI assistants entrenching digital inequality

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested
HUMHUM-0034/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems Undermining Human Decision-Making Autonomy

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AI Risk Atlas (IBM2025)Ingested