MIT AI Risk Repository · Risk Category · 12.03.00

Environmental & Societal Impact

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Description

"Addresses AI's broader societal effects, including labor displacement, mental health impacts, and issues from manipulative technologies like deepfakes. Additionally, it considers AI's environmental footprint, balancing resource strain and training-related carbon emissions against AI's potential to help address environmental problems."

From AI Risk Profiles: A Standards Proposal for Pre-Deployment AI Risk Disclosures (Sherman2023), as extracted by the MIT AI Risk Repository (CC BY 4.0).

Classification

Domain: 6. Socioeconomic & Environmental
Subdomain: 6.0
Causal entity: Other
Intent: Other
Timing: Post-deployment

How other frameworks describe this risk

Loss of right to due process
A Collaborative, Human-Centred Taxonomy of AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Harms (Abercrombie2024)
Societal and Cultural
A Collaborative, Human-Centred Taxonomy of AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Harms (Abercrombie2024)
Loss of freedom of assembly/association
A Collaborative, Human-Centred Taxonomy of AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Harms (Abercrombie2024)
Loss of social rights and access to public services
A Collaborative, Human-Centred Taxonomy of AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Harms (Abercrombie2024)
Loss of right to information
A Collaborative, Human-Centred Taxonomy of AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Harms (Abercrombie2024)
Loss of right to liberty and security
A Collaborative, Human-Centred Taxonomy of AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Harms (Abercrombie2024)
Loss of freedom of speech/expression
A Collaborative, Human-Centred Taxonomy of AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Harms (Abercrombie2024)
Loss of right to free elections
A Collaborative, Human-Centred Taxonomy of AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Harms (Abercrombie2024)

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