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Societal and Cultural

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Description

"Societal and Cultural - Harms affecting the functioning of societies, communities and economies caused directly or indirectly by the use or misuse technology systems."

From A Collaborative, Human-Centred Taxonomy of AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Harms (Abercrombie2024), as extracted by the MIT AI Risk Repository (CC BY 4.0).

Classification

Subdomain
6.0
Causal entity
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Intent
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Timing
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How other frameworks describe this risk

  • Economic harm

    Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems (Gipiškis2024)

  • Environmental, economical, and societal challenges

    Regulating under Uncertainty: Governance Options for Generative AI (G'sell2024)

  • Structural

    Examining the differential risk from high-level artificial intelligence and the question of control (Kilian2023)

  • Political instability

    A Closer Look at the Existing Risks of Generative AI: Mapping the Who, What, and How of Real-World Incidents (Li2025)

  • Economic Risks

    Embodied AI: Emerging Risks and Opportunities for Policy Action (Perlo2025)

  • Societal System Harms

    Sociotechnical Harms of Algorithmic Systems: Scoping a Taxonomy for Harm Reduction (Shelby2023)

  • Environmental & Societal Impact

    AI Risk Profiles: A Standards Proposal for Pre-Deployment AI Risk Disclosures (Sherman2023)

  • Second-Order Risks

    The Risks of Machine Learning Systems (Tan2022)

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