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MIT AI Risk Repository · Risk Category · 17.03.00

Misinformation Harms

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Description

"Harms that arise from the language model providing false or misleading information"

From Ethical and social risks of harm from language models (Weidinger2021), as extracted by the MIT AI Risk Repository (CC BY 4.0).

Classification

Domain: 3. Misinformation
Subdomain: 3.0
Causal entity: AI
Intent: Other
Timing: Post-deployment

How other frameworks describe this risk

Historical revisionism
A Collaborative, Human-Centred Taxonomy of AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Harms (Abercrombie2024)
Misinformation risks
The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)
Risk area 3: Misinformation Harms
Taxonomy of Risks posed by Language Models (Weidinger2022)
Misinformation Harms
Sociotechnical Safety Evaluation of Generative AI Systems (Weidinger2023)

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