MIT AI Risk Repository · Risk Sub-Category · 09.02.02
Human dignity/respect
Category: Domain-specific AI - Effects on humans and other living beings: Non-existential risks
Description
"Discrepancies between caste/status based on intelligence may lead to undignified parts of the society—e.g., humans—who are surpassed in intelligence by AI"
From Managing the ethical and risk implications of rapid advances in artificial intelligence: A literature review (Meek2016), as extracted by the MIT AI Risk Repository (CC BY 4.0).
Classification
- Causal entity
- Other
- Intent
- Other
- Timing
- Post-deployment
Subdomain definition: Humans delegating key decisions to AI systems, or AI systems making decisions that diminish human control and autonomy, potentially leading to humans feeling disempowered, losing the ability to shape a fulfilling life trajectory or becoming cognitively enfeebled.
Real-world incidents in this subdomain
- DisMech AI Curation Agent Reportedly Completed GitHub Issue Intended as New Contributor's Learning Task
- Waymo Driverless Taxi Allegedly Stalled During Pedestrian Harassment Incident in San Francisco
- California Police Turned on Music to Allegedly Trigger Instagram’s DCMA to Avoid Being Live-Streamed
- Hawaii Police Deployed Robot Dog to Patrol a Homeless Encampment
How other frameworks describe this risk
Other entries from Meek2016
- Domain-specific AI - Effects on humans and other living beings: Existential Risks
- Unethical decision making
- Domain-specific AI - Effects on humans and other living beings: Non-existential risks
- Privacy
- Decision making transparency
- Safety
- Law abiding
- Inequality of wealth
- Societal manipulation
- AGI - Effects on humans and other living beings: Existential risks
- Direct competition with humans
- Unpredictable outcomes