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SECSEC-0044/5NewOtherGlobal

AI-Enabled Cognitive Warfare and Disinformation Infrastructure

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AI Safety Governance Framework (TC2602024)Ingested —

GOVGOV-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

Training Data Contamination Undermines AI Benchmark Reliability

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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 —

HUMHUM-0044/5NewGovernmentGlobal

AI Systems Delivering Unqualified Specialist Advice Across Finance, Health, Law and Elections

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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-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

Diffuse AI Accountability Across Multi-Party Development Chains

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Taxonomy of Systemic Risks from General-Purpose AI (Uuk2025)Ingested —

OPSOPS-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

LLM Robustness Failures Under Adversarial and Out-of-Distribution Inputs

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Cataloguing LLM Evaluations (InfoComm2023)Ingested —

OPSOPS-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

AI System Failures and Attacks Create Real-World Safety and Economic Risks

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AI Safety Governance Framework (TC2602024)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 —

HUMHUM-0034/5NewOtherGlobal

Generative AI Systems Present False Information as Authoritative Fact

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

GOVGOV-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

Benchmark Annotation Contamination Invalidates AI Capability Evaluations

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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-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

Open-Weight AI Models Cannot Be Decommissioned After Release or Breach

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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-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

Safety Benchmarks Lag Behind Performance Metrics in AI Evaluation

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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-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

Retrieval-Augmented LLMs Overridden by Small Volumes of False External Data

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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 —

HUMHUM-0054/5NewOtherGlobal

AI-Driven Profiling Entrenches Structural Discrimination and Widens Intelligence Gaps

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AI Safety Governance Framework (TC2602024)Ingested —

GOVGOV-0063/5NewTechnologyGlobal

Unexplained In-Context Learning Creates Safety Guarantees Gap in General-Purpose AI

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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-0024/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems Develop Unanticipated Capabilities After Deployment

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

GOVGOV-0064/5NewTechnologyGlobal

Systemic Trust Deficits in AI Systems Across Public and Technology Sectors

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Ethical Issues in the Development of Artificial Intelligence: Recognizing the Risks (Kumar2023)Ingested —

SECSEC-0014/5NewLegalGlobal

Generative AI Models Bypassed via Jailbreaking to Produce Prohibited Content

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

HUMHUM-0044/5NewOtherGlobal

Generative AI Chatbots Drive Uncritical User Dependence and Opinion Manipulation

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

SECSEC-0014/5NewDefenceGlobal

Generative AI Amplifies Cyberattack Capability Against Critical Defence Infrastructure

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

SECSEC-0044/5NewTechnologyAsia-Pacific

AI Systems Enabling Escalating Privacy Violations and Surveillance

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Ten Hard Problems in Artificial Intelligence We Must Get Right (Leech2024)Ingested —

GOVGOV-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

Conflicts of Interest Undermine Independence of General-Purpose AI Auditors

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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-0034/5NewEnergyGlobal

Deep Learning Systems Drive Unsustainable Energy Consumption in Energy Sector

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

BUSBUS-0053/5NewHealthcareGlobal

Concentrated AI Supply Chain Creates Systemic Risk in Healthcare Sector

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — International AI Safety Report 2025 (Bengio2025)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