MIT AI Risk Repository · Risk Category · 20.03.00
AI Society
Description
"AI already shapes many areas of daily life and thus has a strong impact on society and everyday social life. For instance, transportation, education, public safety and surveillance are areas where citizens encounter AI technology (Stone et al., 2016; Thierer et al., 2017). Many are concerned with the subliminal automation of more and more jobs and some people even fear the complete dependence on AI or perceive it as an existential threat to humanity (McGinnis, 2010; Scherer, 2016)."
From The Dark Sides of Artificial Intelligence: An Integrated AI Governance Framework for Public Administration (Wirtz2020), as extracted by the MIT AI Risk Repository (CC BY 4.0).
Classification
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
How other frameworks describe this risk
Other entries from Wirtz2020
- AI Law and Regulation
- Governance of autonomous intelligence systems
- Governance of autonomous intelligence systems
- Responsibility and accountability
- Privacy and safety
- AI Ethics
- AI-rulemaking for human behaviour
- Compatibility of AI vs. human value judgement
- Moral dilemmas
- AI discrimination
- Workforce substitution and transformation
- Social acceptance and trust in AI