MIT AI Risk Repository · domain 6: Socioeconomic & Environmental
6.1 Power centralization and unfair distribution of benefits
AI-driven concentration of power and resources within certain entities or groups, especially those with access to or ownership of powerful AI systems, leading to inequitable distribution of benefits and increased societal inequality.
Risk entries
54
Frameworks citing it
12
Recorded incidents
6
Incidents since 2020
2
Causal entity (risk entries)
Causal entity (risk entries)
Label
Value
Human
35
Other
13
AI
3
Not coded
3
Intent (risk entries)
Intent (risk entries)
Label
Value
Intentional
18
Unintentional
17
Other
16
Not coded
3
Timing (risk entries)
Timing (risk entries)
Label
Value
Post-deployment
25
Other
24
Not coded
3
Pre-deployment
2
Recorded incidents per yearIncident date; current year partial
Recorded incidents per year
Label
Value
2016
1
2017
1
2018
2
2021
1
2025
1
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