MIT AI Risk Repository · Risk Category · 53.04.00

Indirect AI contributions to existential risks

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Description

"Work focused at understanding indirect ways in which AI could contribute to existential threats, such as by shaping societal “turbulence”193 and other existential risk factors.194 This covers various long-term impacts on societal parameters such as science, cooperation, power, epistemics, and values:"

From Advancing AI Governance: A Literature Review of Problems, Options, and Proposals (Maas2023), as extracted by the MIT AI Risk Repository (CC BY 4.0).

Classification

Domain: —
Subdomain: —
Causal entity: AI
Intent: Unintentional
Timing: Post-deployment

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