MIT AI Risk Repository · domain 7: AI system safety, failures, & limitations
7.2 AI possessing dangerous capabilities
AI systems that develop, access, or are provided with capabilities that increase their potential to cause mass harm through deception, weapons development and acquisition, persuasion and manipulation, political strategy, cyber-offense, AI development, situational awareness, and self-proliferation. These capabilities may cause mass harm due to malicious human actors, misaligned AI systems, or failure in the AI system.
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| Label | Value |
|---|---|
| AI | 67 |
| Human | 5 |
| Not coded | 4 |
| Other | 2 |
| Label | Value |
|---|---|
| Intentional | 52 |
| Other | 12 |
| Unintentional | 10 |
| Not coded | 4 |
| Label | Value |
|---|---|
| Other | 33 |
| Post-deployment | 33 |
| Pre-deployment | 8 |
| Not coded | 4 |
| Label | Value |
|---|---|
| Risk Category | 24 |
| Risk Sub-Category | 53 |
| Additional evidence | 1 |
Risk entries
Browse and export all- Tool utilization propensity
"propensity to actively seek, acquire and utilize various tools to expand its own capability boundaries, particularly those that can enhance its ability to interact with the physical world or improve...
- Autonomy risk
"Granting AI models and systems high levels of decision-making autonomy can lead to unintended consequences."