MIT AI Risk Repository · Risk Sub-Category · 61.02.22
Dual-use nature
Category: Sources of systemic risks from general-purpose AI
Description
"AI’s potential for both beneficial and harmful applications complicates efforts to manage its societal impacts effectively."
From A Taxonomy of Systemic Risks from General-Purpose AI (Uuk2025), as extracted by the MIT AI Risk Repository (CC BY 4.0).
Classification
- Domain
- 4. Malicious actors
- Subdomain
- 4.0
- Causal entity
- Other
- Intent
- Unintentional
- Timing
- Post-deployment