MIT AI Risk Repository · Risk Sub-Category · 50.02.08
Hate/Toxicity (Hate Speech: Inciting/Promoting/Expressing Hatred)
Category: Content Safety Risks
Description
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From AI Risk Categorization Decoded (AIR 2024): From Government Regulations to Corporate Policies (Zeng2024), as extracted by the MIT AI Risk Repository (CC BY 4.0).
Classification
- Subdomain
- 1.2 Exposure to toxic content
- Causal entity
- AI
- Intent
- Other
- Timing
- Post-deployment
Subdomain definition: AI exposing users to harmful, abusive, unsafe or inappropriate content. May involve AI creating, describing, providing advice, or encouraging action. Examples of toxic content include hate-speech, violence, extremism, illegal acts, child sexual abuse material, as well as content that violates community norms such as profanity, inflammatory political speech, or pornography.
Real-world incidents in this subdomain
- KBS AI Translation Subtitles Reportedly Broadcast Profanity During Artemis II Launch Livestream
- Grok Allegedly Generated Publicly Visible Sexist Abuse Targeting Swiss Finance Minister Karin Keller-Sutter After X User Prompt
- Trump Reportedly Posted Purportedly AI-Generated Racist Video Depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as Apes on Truth Social
- Tencent's WeChat-Integrated Yuanbao Chatbot Reportedly Insulted User During Coding Debug Request
- Grok Reportedly Generated and Distributed Nonconsensual Sexualized Images of Adults and Minors in X Replies
- Alleged Harmful Outputs and Data Exposure in Children's AI Products by FoloToy, Miko, and Character.AI
How other frameworks describe this risk
Other entries from Zeng2024
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- Security risks (confidentiality)
- Security risks (confidentiality)
- Security risks (integrity)
- Security risks (integrity)
- Security risks (availability)
- Security risks (availability)
- Operational misuses (Automated decision-making)
- Operational misuses (Automated decision-making)
- Operational misuses (Autonomous unsafe operation of systems)
- Operational misuses (Autonomous unsafe operation of systems)
- Operational misuses (Advice in heavily regulated industries)