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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
GOVGOV-0064/5NewOtherGlobal

Accountability Gaps in AI Decision-Making Systems

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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

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
ENVENV-0043/5NewOtherUK

AI Development Triggers Resource Conflicts Over Data Centres and Semiconductors

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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
GOVGOV-0064/5NewHealthcareGlobal

Black-Box AI in Healthcare Blocks Clinical Verification

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Survey of Artificial Intelligence Challenges: Analyzing the Definitions, Relationships, and Evolutions (Saghiri2022)Ingested
DATDAT-0033/5NewOtherUK

Frontier AI Systems Amplify Discriminatory Bias Across All Output Modalities

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Future Risks of Frontier AI (GOS2023)Ingested
HUMHUM-0045/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems in Elder and Child Care Risk Psychological Manipulation

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Rise of Artificial Intelligence - Future Outlooks and Emerging Risks (Allianz2018)Ingested
SECSEC-0014/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems Exposed to the Same Cyber Vulnerabilities as Conventional Software

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

Autonomous Vehicle AI Creates Unresolved Liability and Ethical Decision Gaps

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Rise of Artificial Intelligence - Future Outlooks and Emerging Risks (Allianz2018)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
GOVGOV-0063/5NewOtherGlobal

Absence of Accountability Frameworks in AI Decision-Making

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — An Exploratory Diagnosis of Artificial Intelligence Risks for a Responsible Governance (Teixeira2022)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
GOVGOV-0014/5NewTransportGlobal

Autonomous Vehicle Liability Gap Leaves Crash Responsibility Unresolved

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Survey of Artificial Intelligence Challenges: Analyzing the Definitions, Relationships, and Evolutions (Saghiri2022)Ingested
HUMHUM-0045/5NewHealthcareGlobal

AI in Elder and Child Care Raises Manipulation and Privacy Governance Risks

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — The Rise of Artificial Intelligence - Future Outlooks and Emerging Risks (Allianz2018)Ingested
BUSBUS-0054/5NewOtherGlobal

AI-Driven Market Monopolisation Through Algorithmic Price Control

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Collaborative, Human-Centred Taxonomy of AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Harms (Abercrombie2024)Ingested
GOVGOV-0013/5NewOtherGlobal

Superintelligent AI Agents Risk Becoming Uncontrollable as Autonomy Increases

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

AI Agent Decisions Cannot Be Reliably Predicted Across All Situations

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Survey of Artificial Intelligence Challenges: Analyzing the Definitions, Relationships, and Evolutions (Saghiri2022)Ingested
GOVGOV-0064/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Decision Opacity Blocks External Accountability in Public-Sector Systems

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

AI Systems Causing Human Harm Through Unsafe Agent Actions

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Survey of Artificial Intelligence Challenges: Analyzing the Definitions, Relationships, and Evolutions (Saghiri2022)Ingested
SECSEC-0025/5NewOtherGlobal

LLMs Accelerating Dual-Use AI Development at Scale

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — Cataloguing LLM Evaluations (InfoComm2023)Ingested
GOVGOV-0064/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Model Reproducibility Failures Undermine Scientific and Regulatory Trust

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Source: MIT AI Risk Repository — A Survey of Artificial Intelligence Challenges: Analyzing the Definitions, Relationships, and Evolutions (Saghiri2022)Ingested
DATDAT-0023/5NewOtherGlobal

AI Systems Exposing Personal Data Through Inadequately Secured Channels

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