MIT AI Risk Repository · Risk Category · 08.03.00
Development of unsafe AGI
Description
"The risks associated with the race to develop the first AGI, including the development of poor quality and unsafe AGI, and heightened political and control issues."
From The risks associated with Artificial General Intelligence: A systematic review (McLean2023), as extracted by the MIT AI Risk Repository (CC BY 4.0).
Classification
- Subdomain
- 6.4 Competitive dynamics
- Causal entity
- Human
- Intent
- Other
- Timing
- Pre-deployment
Subdomain definition: AI developers or state-like actors competing in an AI ‘race’ by rapidly developing, deploying, and applying AI systems to maximize strategic or economic advantage, increasing the risk they release unsafe and error-prone systems.
Real-world incidents in this subdomain
- Korean Internet Portal Giant Naver Manipulated Shopping and Video Search Algorithms to Favor In-House Services
- Apple Tweaked App Store Ranking Algorithms, Allegedly Resulted in Demotion of Local Apps in China
- Inefficiencies in the United States Resident Matching Program