MIT AI Risk Repository · Risk Sub-Category · 66.07.03

Emotional distress

Category: Psychological

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Description

"Distress, possibly severe and lasting, as a result of use or misuse of a generative system"

From A Closer Look at the Existing Risks of Generative AI: Mapping the Who, What, and How of Real-World Incidents (Li2025), as extracted by the MIT AI Risk Repository (CC BY 4.0).

Classification

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Causal entity: Not coded
Intent: Not coded
Timing: Not coded

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