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MIT AI Risk Repository · Risk Sub-Category · 09.03.01

Direct competition with humans

Category: AGI - Effects on humans and other living beings: Existential risks

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"One or more artificial agent(s) could have the capacity to directly outcompete humans, for example through capacity to perform work faster, better adaptation to change, vaster knowledge base to draw from, etc. This may result in human labor becoming more expensive or less effective than artificial labor, leading to redundancies or extinction of the human labor force."

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).

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AI

Subdomain definition: Widespread use of AI increasing social and economic inequalities, such as by automating jobs, reducing the quality of employment, or producing exploitative dependencies between workers and their employers.

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How other frameworks describe this risk

  • Labour exploitation

    A Collaborative, Human-Centred Taxonomy of AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Harms (Abercrombie2024)

  • Societal destabilisation

    A Collaborative, Human-Centred Taxonomy of AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Harms (Abercrombie2024)

  • Societal inequality

    A Collaborative, Human-Centred Taxonomy of AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Harms (Abercrombie2024)

  • Job loss/losses

    A Collaborative, Human-Centred Taxonomy of AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Harms (Abercrombie2024)

  • Political instability

    A Collaborative, Human-Centred Taxonomy of AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Harms (Abercrombie2024)

  • Increased income disparity

    The Rise of Artificial Intelligence - Future Outlooks and Emerging Risks (Allianz2018)

  • Economic

    The Rise of Artificial Intelligence - Future Outlooks and Emerging Risks (Allianz2018)

  • Effects on the Workforce

    Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models (Anwar2024)

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