MIT AI Risk Repository · Risk Category · 67.04.00
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Category: Loss of control
Description
"Humans may increasingly hand over control of important decisions to AI systems, due to economic and geopolitical incentives. Some experts are concerned that future advanced AI systems will seek to increase their own influence and reduce human control, with potentially catastrophic consequences - although this is contested."
From Capabilities and Risks from Frontier AI (DSIT2023), as extracted by the MIT AI Risk Repository (CC BY 4.0).
Classification
- Causal entity
- Other
- Intent
- Other
- Timing
- Post-deployment
Subdomain definition: Humans delegating key decisions to AI systems, or AI systems making decisions that diminish human control and autonomy, potentially leading to humans feeling disempowered, losing the ability to shape a fulfilling life trajectory or becoming cognitively enfeebled.
Real-world incidents in this subdomain
- DisMech AI Curation Agent Reportedly Completed GitHub Issue Intended as New Contributor's Learning Task
- Waymo Driverless Taxi Allegedly Stalled During Pedestrian Harassment Incident in San Francisco
- California Police Turned on Music to Allegedly Trigger Instagram’s DCMA to Avoid Being Live-Streamed
- Hawaii Police Deployed Robot Dog to Patrol a Homeless Encampment
How other frameworks describe this risk
Other entries from DSIT2023
- Societal harms
- Degradation of the information environment
- Degradation of the information environment
- Degradation of the information environment
- Degradation of the information environment
- Degradation of the information environment
- Labour market disruption
- Labour market disruption
- Bias, Fairness and Representational Harms
- Bias, Fairness and Representational Harms
- Bias, Fairness and Representational Harms
- Bias, Fairness and Representational Harms