Environmental risk

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"In 1974, [134] proposed that stratospheric ozone might be destroyed by industrially produced substances including chlorofluorocarbons (CFC) which are commonly used in refrigerators and air conditioners. This ozone depletion is believed to have led to an increase in global skin cancer prevalence through overexposure to the sun, posing a significant world-wide health burden [135]. To manage this externality, the Montreal Protocol, a global agreement to phase out chemicals that led to the ozone depletion, was eventually signed in 1987 and entered into force in 1989 [136]. Prior to the Montreal P

From Dimensional Characterization and Pathway Modeling for Catastrophic AI Risks (Chin2025), as extracted by the MIT AI Risk Repository (CC BY 4.0).