MIT AI Risk Repository · Risk Sub-Category · 09.04.02

Property/legal rights

Category: Property/legal rights

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Description

""In order to preserve human property rights and legal rights, certain controls must be put into place. If an artificially intelligent agent is capable of manipulating systems and people, it may also have the capacity to transfer property rights to itself or manipulate the legal system to provide certain legal advantages or statuses to itself""

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

Domain: 7. AI system safety, failures, & limitations
Subdomain: 7.2 AI possessing dangerous capabilities
Causal entity: AI
Intent: Intentional
Timing: Post-deployment

Subdomain definition: 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.

How other frameworks describe this risk

Safety Risks from Affordances Provided to LLM-agents
Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models (Anwar2024)
Agentic LLMs Pose Novel Risks
Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models (Anwar2024)
Goal-Directedness Incentivizes Undesirable Behaviors
Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models (Anwar2024)
Capabilities that could be used to reduce human control - Cyber offence
Capabilities and Risks from Frontier AI (DSIT2023)
Capabilities that could be used to reduce human control - Autonomous replication and adaptation
Capabilities and Risks from Frontier AI (DSIT2023)
Capabilities that could be used to reduce human control - Manipulation
Capabilities and Risks from Frontier AI (DSIT2023)
Subagents
AGI Safety Literature Review (Everitt2018 )
AI Influence
The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)

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