MIT AI Risk Repository · Risk Sub-Category · 58.07.06

Historical revisionism

Category: Societal and Cultural

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Description

"Historical revisionism - Deliberate or unintentional reinterpretation of established/orthodox historical events or accounts held by societies, communities, academics."

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

Domain: 3. Misinformation
Subdomain: 3.0
Causal entity: Other
Intent: Other
Timing: Other

How other frameworks describe this risk

Misinformation risks
The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants (Gabriel2024)
Misinformation Harms
Ethical and social risks of harm from language models (Weidinger2021)
Risk area 3: Misinformation Harms
Taxonomy of Risks posed by Language Models (Weidinger2022)
Misinformation Harms
Sociotechnical Safety Evaluation of Generative AI Systems (Weidinger2023)

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