MIT AI Risk Repository · Risk Sub-Category · 62.36.04
Systemic bias across specific communities
Category: Impacts of AI (Bias)
Description
"AI systems may exhibit unfair or unfavorable outputs across a range of tasks against specific communities of people, either implicitly or explicitly. Bias can lead to forms of exclusion or erasure (e.g., mislabelling for categorization-based tasks) and violence (e.g., sexual violence against women from deepfake pornog- raphy)."
From Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems (Gipiškis2024), as extracted by the MIT AI Risk Repository (CC BY 4.0).
Classification
- Causal entity
- AI
- Intent
- Other
- Timing
- Post-deployment
Subdomain definition: Unequal treatment of individuals or groups by AI, often based on race, gender, or other sensitive characteristics, resulting in unfair outcomes and representation of those groups.
Real-world incidents in this subdomain
- DOGE Reportedly Relied on Unvetted ChatGPT Outputs in Canceling National Endowment for the Humanities Grants
- Sora Video Generator Has Reportedly Been Creating Biased Human Representations Across Race, Gender, and Disability
- Meta AI Characters Allegedly Exhibited Racism, Fabricated Identities, and Exploited User Trust
- Alleged AI-Generated Photo Alteration Leads to Inappropriate Modifications in Speaker's Conference Picture
- Algorithmic Bias in French Welfare System Allegedly Discriminates Against Marginalized Groups
- Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) AI Systems Allegedly Discriminate Against Single Mothers