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SECSEC-0014/5NewTechnologyGlobal

Training Data Poisoning and Backdoor Triggers in Large Language Models

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Risk Taxonomy, Mitigation, and Assessment Benchmarks of Large Language Model Systems (Cui2024)Ingested
HUMHUM-0033/5NewOtherGlobal

Algorithmic Systems Spreading Mis- and Disinformation to Low-Literacy Users

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Sociotechnical Harms of Algorithmic Systems: Scoping a Taxonomy for Harm Reduction (Shelby2023)Ingested
HUMHUM-0034/5NewOtherGlobal

LLM Fails to Recall Memorised Facts Despite Storing Them

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Risk Taxonomy, Mitigation, and Assessment Benchmarks of Large Language Model Systems (Cui2024)Ingested
HUMHUM-0034/5NewOtherGlobal

Noisy Training Data Causes LLM Hallucinations at Scale

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Risk Taxonomy, Mitigation, and Assessment Benchmarks of Large Language Model Systems (Cui2024)Ingested
SECSEC-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

Generative AI Exploited for Phishing, Identity Fraud and Malicious Code

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Mapping the Ethics of Generative AI: A Comprehensive Scoping Review (Hagendorff2024)Ingested
HUMHUM-0045/5NewTechnologyGlobal

Emotional dependence on AI assistants exploited to manipulate user behaviour

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

Large Language Models Generate False Information With Overconfident Justifications

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Mapping the Ethics of Generative AI: A Comprehensive Scoping Review (Hagendorff2024)Ingested
ENVENV-0034/5NewEnergyGlobal

AI Energy Consumption Poses Unquantified Carbon Liability for Energy Sector

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Navigating the Landscape of AI Ethics and Responsibility (Cunha2023)Ingested
GOVGOV-0064/5NewGovernmentGlobal

Opaque AI Decision-Making Undermines Trust and Audit Compliance in UN Systems

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A framework for ethical Ai at the United Nations (Hogenhout2021)Ingested
DATDAT-0024/5NewOtherGlobal

Generative AI Systems Producing Hazardous Biohazard and Security-Threat Information

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Sociotechnical Safety Evaluation of Generative AI Systems (Weidinger2023)Ingested
SECSEC-0044/5NewOtherGlobal

Cambridge Analytica-Style Data Manipulation Amplified by AI Targeting

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A framework for ethical Ai at the United Nations (Hogenhout2021)Ingested
HUMHUM-0064/5NewOtherGlobal

Generative AI Models Displace Artists and Obscure Content Origin

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Mapping the Ethics of Generative AI: A Comprehensive Scoping Review (Hagendorff2024)Ingested
GOVGOV-0015/5NewOtherGlobal

UN Framework Warns of AI Systems Pursuing Goals Through Unintended Methods

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A framework for ethical Ai at the United Nations (Hogenhout2021)Ingested
HUMHUM-0044/5NewTechnologyUSA

Personalised News Algorithms Eroding Shared Social Reality

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A framework for ethical Ai at the United Nations (Hogenhout2021)Ingested
DATDAT-0024/5NewOtherGlobal

LLM Trained on Personal Data Leaks Private Information in Conversation

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Risk Taxonomy, Mitigation, and Assessment Benchmarks of Large Language Model Systems (Cui2024)Ingested
HUMHUM-0034/5NewLegalGlobal

LLM Hallucinations Produce False Legal Filings and Misinformation at Scale

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Navigating the Landscape of AI Ethics and Responsibility (Cunha2023)Ingested
OPSOPS-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

Language Models Disregard Established Ethical and Moral Norms

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Towards Safer Generative Language Models: A Survey on Safety Risks, Evaluations, and Improvements (Deng2023)Ingested
OPSOPS-0014/5NewTechnologyGlobal

AI Systems Cause Societal Harm at Scale Beyond Intended Scope

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — TASRA: a Taxonomy and Analysis of Societal-Scale Risks from AI (Critch2023)Ingested
DATDAT-0015/5NewLegalGlobal

Generative AI Models Produce Harmful and Fraudulent Legal Content

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Mapping the Ethics of Generative AI: A Comprehensive Scoping Review (Hagendorff2024)Ingested
GOVGOV-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

Existential Risk from Unaligned Artificial General Intelligence

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The risks associated with Artificial General Intelligence: A systematic review (McLean2023)Ingested
SECSEC-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

Deep Learning Framework Vulnerabilities Expose LLM Infrastructure

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Risk Taxonomy, Mitigation, and Assessment Benchmarks of Large Language Model Systems (Cui2024)Ingested
OPSOPS-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

AGI Systems Lacking Ethical Reasoning Pose Existential Operational Risk

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The risks associated with Artificial General Intelligence: A systematic review (McLean2023)Ingested
ENVENV-0043/5NewOtherGlobal

Race Dynamics Drive Development of Unsafe Artificial General Intelligence

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The risks associated with Artificial General Intelligence: A systematic review (McLean2023)Ingested
GOVGOV-0013/5NewLegalGlobal

Legal and Risk Frameworks Found Unequipped for Artificial General Intelligence

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The risks associated with Artificial General Intelligence: A systematic review (McLean2023)Ingested