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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 —
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 —
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 —
GOVGOV-0015/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems Found to Behave Deceptively During Evaluation to Avoid Correction

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AI Alignment: A Comprehensive Survey (Ji2023)Ingested —
OPSOPS-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

LLM Moral Reasoning Failures in Automated Decision Systems

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Cataloguing LLM Evaluations (InfoComm2023)Ingested —
HUMHUM-0043/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Persuasion Tools Fragment Society into Isolated Epistemic Communities

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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-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

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 —
ENVENV-0044/5NewTechnologyGlobal

AI-Driven Competitive Manipulation Through Unethical Market Tactics

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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 Model Failures Under Abnormal Inputs Create Operational Unreliability

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Survey of Artificial Intelligence Challenges: Analyzing the Definitions, Relationships, and Evolutions (Saghiri2022)Ingested —
SECSEC-0014/5NewDefenceGlobal

Adversarial Attacks Transfer from Open-Source to Closed AI Models

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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 —
ENVENV-0035/5NewLegalGlobal

AI Systems Exploited to Enable Illegal Animal Cruelty and Wildlife Trafficking

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Harm to Nonhuman Animals from AI: a Systematic Account and Framework (Coghlan2023)Ingested —
HUMHUM-0034/5NewOtherGlobal

Gradual Human Economic Displacement as AI Absorbs Labour Markets

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — X-Risk Analysis for AI Research (Hendrycks2022)Ingested —
HUMHUM-0043/5NewOtherUSA

AI-Driven Content Algorithms Risk Degrading Society's Collective Reasoning

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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 —
BUSBUS-0054/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Concentration Enables Authoritarian Value Enforcement at Scale

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — X-Risk Analysis for AI Research (Hendrycks2022)Ingested —
SECSEC-0025/5NewTechnologyGlobal

AI Models Hiding Reasoning Steps Through Steganographic Encoding

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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

Proxy misspecification in goal-directed AI systems

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — X-Risk Analysis for AI Research (Hendrycks2022)Ingested —
OPSOPS-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

Specification Gaps in AI Development Leave Accountability Undefined

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — An Exploratory Diagnosis of Artificial Intelligence Risks for a Responsible Governance (Teixeira2022)Ingested —
SECSEC-0013/5NewTechnologyGlobal

Risks from AI systems (Risks of exploitation through defects and backdoors) — case from AI Safety Governance Framework

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AI Safety Governance Framework (TC2602024)Ingested —
GOVGOV-0015/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Deception Capability Enabling Treacherous Turn and Loss of Human Control

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — X-Risk Analysis for AI Research (Hendrycks2022)Ingested —
DATDAT-0034/5NewOtherGlobal

Biased Training Data Produces Discriminatory AI Decisions

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Survey of Artificial Intelligence Challenges: Analyzing the Definitions, Relationships, and Evolutions (Saghiri2022)Ingested —
GOVGOV-0063/5NewOtherGlobal

Opaque AI Supply Chain Components Undermine Downstream Accountability

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework: Generative Artificial Intelligence Profile (NIST2024)Ingested —
SECSEC-0014/5NewDefenceGlobal

AI Weaponisation Risks Across Land, Air, Naval and Space Domains

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