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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
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
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
SECSEC-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

AI-Enabled Cyberattack Capability Lowers Threat Threshold Across Sectors

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — AI Safety Governance Framework (TC2602024)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
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
DATDAT-0024/5NewOtherGlobal

Generative AI Systems Leaking Sensitive Personal and Biometric Data

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

Autonomous Weapons Systems Outperform Human Pilots, Raising Lethal AI Governance Gaps

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Regulating under Uncertainty: Governance Options for Generative AI (G'sell2024)Ingested
HUMHUM-0064/5NewOtherGlobal

Generative AI Displacing Skilled Workers and Concentrating Economic Power

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Regulating under Uncertainty: Governance Options for Generative AI (G'sell2024)Ingested
DATDAT-0033/5NewOtherGlobal

Generative AI Systems Amplify Societal Bias and Suppress Output Diversity

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework: Generative Artificial Intelligence Profile (NIST2024)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
SECSEC-0044/5NewTechnologyGlobal

Generative AI Enables Scalable Mass Surveillance of Individuals

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Regulating under Uncertainty: Governance Options for Generative AI (G'sell2024)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
GOVGOV-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

Systemic Gap in Human-AI Coexistence Frameworks Across Public Sector

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — What Ethics Can Say on Artificial Intelligence: Insights from a Systematic Literature Review (Giarmoleo2024)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
OPSOPS-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

Adversarial Training Produces Models That Become Less Robust Over Time

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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-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