MIT AI Risk Repository · Risk Sub-Category · 47.04.02
Concentration of market power (Negative effects of increased market concentration)
Category: Environmental, economical, and societal challenges
Description
"The concentration of AI assets—encompassing data, hardware, and expertise—within a small group of global tech firms raises many concerns.564 Such a situation may stifle healthy competition, impede innovation, and potentially result in elevated costs for accessing AI technologies. Firms with control over essential resources for developing AI models may restrict access to these resources to prevent competition. For instance, if, in the future, training AI models increasingly relies on proprietary data, smaller organizations lacking access to such data might encounter significant barriers to ent
From Regulating under Uncertainty: Governance Options for Generative AI (G'sell2024), as extracted by the MIT AI Risk Repository (CC BY 4.0).
Classification
- Causal entity
- Human
- Intent
- Intentional
- Timing
- Other
Subdomain definition: AI-driven concentration of power and resources within certain entities or groups, especially those with access to or ownership of powerful AI systems, leading to inequitable distribution of benefits and increased societal inequality.
Real-world incidents in this subdomain
- LLM Scrapers Allegedly Target Multiple Open Source Projects Disrupting the FOSS Ecosystem
- Coupang Allegedly Tweaked Search Algorithms to Boost Own Products
- Amazon Allegedly Tweaked Search Algorithm to Boost Its Own Products
- Gmail’s Inbox Sorting System Reportedly Reduced Visibility of Political Emails and Campaign Calls-to-Action
- Google Fined for Changing Shopping Algorithms in EU to Favor Own Service
- Amazon India Allegedly Rigged Search Results to Promote Own Products
How other frameworks describe this risk
Other entries from G'sell2024
- Technical and operational risks
- Technical vulnerabilities (Robustness - unexpected behaviour)
- Technical vulnerabilities (Robustness - unexpected behaviour)
- Technical vulnerabilities (Robustness - vulnerability to jailbreaking
- Technical vulnerabilities (Robustness - vulnerability to jailbreaking
- Technical vulnerabilities (The risk of misalignment)
- Technical vulnerabilities (The risk of misalignment)
- Factually incorrect content (inaccuracies and fabricated sources)
- Factually incorrect content (inaccuracies and fabricated sources)
- Opacity (the black box problem)
- Opacity (industry opacity)
- Opacity (industry opacity)