MIT AI Risk Repository · Additional evidence · 68.03.00d
Sudden loss of control
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"On 11th September 1973, the democratic socialist president of Chile Salvador Allende and his Popular Unity coalition government was overthrown in a coup d’état by the Chilean military, ending a 46-year history of democratic rule in Chile [123]. Despite Salvador Allende’s Popular Unity party having increased their congressional election votes to 44 percent in March 1973 (up from 36 percent in 1970) merely six months before the coup, there was little he could do to prevent the military from defecting [124]. This intentional and covertly coordinated subversion was followed by 17 years of militar
From Dimensional Characterization and Pathway Modeling for Catastrophic AI Risks (Chin2025), as extracted by the MIT AI Risk Repository (CC BY 4.0).
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