MIT AI Risk Repository · Risk Category · 10.06.00
Reduced Autonomy/Responsibility
Description
"AI is providing more and more solutions for complex activities, and by taking advantage of this process, people are becoming able to perform a greater number of activities more quickly and accurately. However, the result of this innovation is enabling choices that were once exclusively human responsibility to be made by AI systems."
From Social Impacts of Artificial Intelligence and Mitigation Recommendations: An Exploratory Study (Paes2023), as extracted by the MIT AI Risk Repository (CC BY 4.0).
Classification
- Causal entity
- Other
- Intent
- Unintentional
- 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