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HUMHUM-0053/5NewOtherGlobal

Biased AI Deployment Widens Social Inequality at Scale

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Frontier AI Risk Management Framework (v1.0) (Tse2025)Ingested —

HUMHUM-0034/5NewOtherGlobal

Image Search Algorithm Reinforces Racial Stereotypes Causing Cultural Harm

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Sociotechnical Harms of Algorithmic Systems: Scoping a Taxonomy for Harm Reduction (Shelby2023)Ingested —

SECSEC-0044/5NewDefenceGlobal

Algorithmic Systems Used as Political Weapons and Disinformation Tools

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Sociotechnical Harms of Algorithmic Systems: Scoping a Taxonomy for Harm Reduction (Shelby2023)Ingested —

SECSEC-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

AI-Enabled Cyber Exploitation and Disinformation at Accelerated Scale

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Examining the differential risk from high-level artificial intelligence and the question of control (Kilian2023)Ingested —

HUMHUM-0034/5NewOtherGlobal

LLM Knowledge Boundary Gaps Drive Hallucination Risk Across Deployments

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Risk Taxonomy, Mitigation, and Assessment Benchmarks of Large Language Model Systems (Cui2024)Ingested —

SECSEC-0014/5NewDefenceGlobal

AI Autonomous Weapons Deployment in Active Combat Zones

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models (Anwar2024)Ingested —

GOVGOV-0013/5NewDefenceGlobal

Autonomous weapons misclassify civilians due to opaque targeting algorithms

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Dark Sides of Artificial Intelligence: An Integrated AI Governance Framework for Public Administration (Wirtz2020)Ingested —

HUMHUM-0043/5NewOtherGlobal

Anthropomorphising AI Agents Drives Overreliance and Loss of Human Oversight

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Ethical and social risks of harm from language models (Weidinger2021)Ingested —

DATDAT-0024/5NewGovernmentGlobal

Language Models Inferring Private Attributes Without Personal Data

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Ethical and social risks of harm from language models (Weidinger2021)Ingested —

SECSEC-0044/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems Deployed for Disinformation, Propaganda and Targeted Censorship

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Governance of artificial intelligence: A risk and guideline-based integrative framework (Wirtz2022)Ingested —

SECSEC-0014/5NewDefenceGlobal

Frontier AI Amplifies Offensive Cyber Capabilities in Defence Systems

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Capabilities and Risks from Frontier AI (DSIT2023)Ingested —

DATDAT-0024/5NewOtherGlobal

Language Models Inferring Sensitive Personal Traits from User Inputs

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Taxonomy of Risks posed by Language Models (Weidinger2022)Ingested —

HUMHUM-0064/5NewOtherGlobal

AI-Generated Content Displaces Human Creative Work and Homogenises Aesthetic Output

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Sociotechnical Safety Evaluation of Generative AI Systems (Weidinger2023)Ingested —

SECSEC-0014/5NewEducationGlobal

Generative AI Enables Academic Plagiarism and Examination Cheating at Scale

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Generative AI and ChatGPT: Applications, Challenges, and AI-Human Collaboration (Nah2023)Ingested —

OPSOPS-0013/5NewTechnologyGlobal

AI Systems Lack Defined Moral Standards for Public-Sector Deployment

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Dark Sides of Artificial Intelligence: An Integrated AI Governance Framework for Public Administration (Wirtz2020)Ingested —

GOVGOV-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Assistant Collective Action Failures Undermine Societal Outcomes

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested —

DATDAT-0024/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Model and Training Data Exfiltration via Adversarial API Attacks

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested —

OPSOPS-0014/5NewEnergyGlobal

Advanced AI Assistant Pursues Misaligned Goals Through Unchecked Consequentialist Reasoning

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested —

BUSBUS-0053/5NewTechnologyGlobal

Advanced AI Assistants Risk Entrenching Inequality Without Design Intervention

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested —

HUMHUM-0043/5NewTechnologyGlobal

Anthropomorphic AI Assistant Design Linked to Individual and Societal Harm

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested —

OPSOPS-0014/5NewHealthcareGlobal

Medical AI Assistants Risk Patient Harm Through Unsafe Exploratory Actions

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested —

SECSEC-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

Adversarial Instruction Attacks Bypass Large Language Model Safety Controls

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Safety Assessment of Chinese Large Language Models (Sun2023)Ingested —

ENVENV-0023/5NewHealthcareGlobal

Moral and Legal Status of AI Termination in Healthcare Research Settings

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Managing the ethical and risk implications of rapid advances in artificial intelligence: A literature review (Meek2016)Ingested —

HUMHUM-0044/5NewHealthcareGlobal

Patient Over-Trust in AI Health Assistants Misread as Alignment

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)Ingested —