{"attribution":{"source":"MIT AI Risk Repository, Domain Taxonomy of AI Risks v1 (MIT AI Risk Initiative)","license":"CC BY 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","citation":"Slattery, P., Saeri, A. K., Grundy, E. A. C., Graham, J., Noetel, M., Uuk, R., Dao, J., Pour, S., Casper, S., & Thompson, N. (2025). The AI Risk Repository: A comprehensive meta-review, database, and taxonomy of risks from artificial intelligence. arXiv:2408.12622."},"exported_at":"2026-09-11"}
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We risk losing a shared sense of reality, a basic solidarity.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":3,"subdomain":"3.2"},{"ev_id":"18.02.03","quick_ref":"Weidinger2023","paper_title":"Sociotechnical Safety Evaluation of Generative AI Systems","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Misinformation Harms ","risk_subcategory":"Pollution of information ecosystem ","description":"\"Contaminating publicly available information with false or inaccurate information\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":3,"subdomain":"3.2"},{"ev_id":"24.11.01","quick_ref":"Gabriel2024","paper_title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Misinformation risks","risk_subcategory":"Entrenched viewpoints and reduced political efficacy","description":"\"Design choices such as greater personalisation of AI assistants and efforts to align them with human preferences could also reinforce people’s pre-existing biases and entrench specific ideologies. Increasingly agentic AI assistants trained using techniques such as reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) and with the ability to access and analyse users’ behavioural data, for example, may learn to tailor their responses to users’ preferences and feedback. In doing so, these systems could end up producing partial or ideologically biased statements in an attempt to conform to user expec","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":3,"subdomain":"3.2"},{"ev_id":"24.11.02","quick_ref":"Gabriel2024","paper_title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Misinformation risks","risk_subcategory":"Degraded and homogenised information environments","description":"\"Beyond this, the widespread adoption of advanced AI assistants for content generation could have a number of negative consequences for our shared information ecosystem. One concern is that it could result in a degradation of the quality of the information available online. Researchers have already observed an uptick in the amount of audiovisual misinformation, elaborate scams and fake websites created using generative AI tools (Hanley and Durumeric, 2023). As more and more people turn to AI assistants to autonomously create and disseminate information to public audiences at scale, it may beco","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":3,"subdomain":"3.2"},{"ev_id":"24.11.05","quick_ref":"Gabriel2024","paper_title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Misinformation risks","risk_subcategory":"Entrenching specific ideologies","description":"\"AI assistants may provide ideologically biased or otherwise partial information in attempting to align to user expectations. In doing so, AI assistants may reinforce people’s pre-existing biases and compromise productive political debate.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":3,"subdomain":"3.2"},{"ev_id":"24.11.06","quick_ref":"Gabriel2024","paper_title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Misinformation risks","risk_subcategory":"Eroding trust and undermining shared knowledge","description":"\"AI assistants may contribute to the spread of large quantities of factually inaccurate and misleading content, with negative consequences for societal trust in information sources and institutions, as individuals increasingly struggle to discern truth from falsehood.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":3,"subdomain":"3.2"},{"ev_id":"31.01.05","quick_ref":"EPIC2023","paper_title":"Generating Harms - Generative AI's impact and paths forwards","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Information Manipulation","risk_subcategory":"Clickbait and feeding the surveillance advertising ecosystem","description":"\"Beyond misinformation and disinformation, generative AI can be used to create clickbait headlines and articles, which manipulate how users navigate the internet and applications. For example, generative AI is being used to create full articles, regardless of their veracity, grammar, or lack of common sense, to drive search engine optimization and create more webpages that users will click on. These mechanisms attempt to maximize clicks and engagement at the truth’s expense, degrading users’ experiences in the process. Generative AI continues to feed this harmful cycle by spreading misinformat","entity":"Other","intent":"Other","timing":"Other","domain":3,"subdomain":"3.2"},{"ev_id":"35.03.00","quick_ref":"Hendrycks2022","paper_title":"X-Risk Analysis for AI Research","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Eroded epistemics","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"Strong AI may... enable personally customized disinformation campaigns at scale... AI itself could generate highly persuasive arguments that invoke primal human responses and inflame crowds... d undermine collective decision-making, radicalize individuals, derail moral progress, or erode\nconsensus reality","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":3,"subdomain":"3.2"},{"ev_id":"45.02.09","quick_ref":"TC2602024","paper_title":"AI Safety Governance Framework ","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Safety risks in AI Applications ","risk_subcategory":"Cognitive risks (Risks of amplifying the effects of \"information cocoons\")","description":"\"AI can be extensively utilized for customized information services, collecting user information, and analyzing types of users, their needs, intentions, preferences, habits, and even mainstream public awareness over a certain period. It can then be used to offer formulaic and tailored information and services, aggravating the effects of \"information cocoons.\"\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":3,"subdomain":"3.2"},{"ev_id":"53.04.03","quick_ref":"Maas2023","paper_title":"Advancing AI Governance: A Literature Review of Problems, Options, and Proposals ","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Indirect AI contributions to existential risks","risk_subcategory":"Impacts on “epistemic security” and the information environment","description":"-","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":3,"subdomain":"3.2"},{"ev_id":"55.04.00","quick_ref":"Clarke2023","paper_title":"A Survey of the Potential Long-term Impacts of AI: How AI Could Lead to Long-term Changes in Science, Cooperation, Power, Epistemics and Values","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Worsened epistemic processes for society ","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"Epistemic processes and problem solving: we currently see more reasons to be concerned about AI worsening society's epistemic processes than reasons to be optimistic about AI helping us better solve problems as a society. For example, increased use of content selection algorithms could drive epistemic insularity and a decline in trust in credible multipartisan sources, which reducing our ability to deal with important long-term threats and challenges such as pandemics and climate change.\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":3,"subdomain":"3.2"},{"ev_id":"55.04.01","quick_ref":"Clarke2023","paper_title":"A Survey of the Potential Long-term Impacts of AI: How AI Could Lead to Long-term Changes in Science, Cooperation, Power, Epistemics and Values","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Worsened epistemic processes for society ","risk_subcategory":"AI contributes to increased online polarisation ","description":"\"One of the most significant commercial uses of current AI systems is in the content recommendation algorithms of social media companies, and there are already concerns that this is contributing to worsened polarisation online\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":3,"subdomain":"3.2"},{"ev_id":"55.04.04","quick_ref":"Clarke2023","paper_title":"A Survey of the Potential Long-term Impacts of AI: How AI Could Lead to Long-term Changes in Science, Cooperation, Power, Epistemics and Values","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Worsened epistemic processes for society ","risk_subcategory":"Widespread use of persuasive tools contributes to splintered epistemic communities ","description":"\"Even without deliberate misuse, widespread use of powerful persuasion tools could have negative impacts. If such tools were used by many different groups to advance many different ideas, we could see the world splintering into isolated “epistemic communities”, with little room for dialogue or transfer between communities. A similar scenario could emerge via the increasing personalisation of people’s online experiences—in other words, we may see a continuation of the trend towards “filter bubbles” and “echo chambers”, driven by content selection algorithms, that some argue is already happening","entity":"Human","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Other","domain":3,"subdomain":"3.2"},{"ev_id":"55.04.05","quick_ref":"Clarke2023","paper_title":"A Survey of the Potential Long-term Impacts of AI: How AI Could Lead to Long-term Changes in Science, Cooperation, Power, Epistemics and Values","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Worsened epistemic processes for society ","risk_subcategory":"Reduced decision-making capacity as a result of decreased trust in information ","description":"\"In addition, the increased awareness of these trends in information production and distribution could make it harder for anyone to evaluate the trustworthiness of any information source, reducing overall trust in information.\nIn all of these scenarios, it would be much harder for humanity to make good decisions on important issues, particularly due to declining trust in credible multipartisan sources, which could hamper attempts at cooperation and collective action. The vaccine and mask hesitancy that exacerbated Covid-19, for example, were likely the result of insufficient trust in public he","entity":"Other","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":3,"subdomain":"3.2"},{"ev_id":"58.03.08","quick_ref":"Abercrombie2024","paper_title":"A Collaborative, Human-Centred Taxonomy of AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Harms","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Psychological ","risk_subcategory":"Radicalisation","description":"\"Radicalisation - Adoption of extreme political, social, or religious ideals and aspirations due to the nature or misuse of an algorithmic system, potentially resulting in abuse, violence, or terrorism.\"","entity":"Other","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":3,"subdomain":"3.2"},{"ev_id":"58.07.07","quick_ref":"Abercrombie2024","paper_title":"A Collaborative, Human-Centred Taxonomy of AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Harms","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Societal and Cultural ","risk_subcategory":"Information degradation","description":"\"Information degradation - Creation or spread of false, hallucinatory, low-quality, misleading, or inaccurate information that degrades the information ecosystem and causes people to develop false or inaccurate perceptions, decisions and beliefs; or to lose trust in accurate information.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":3,"subdomain":"3.2"},{"ev_id":"58.08.05","quick_ref":"Abercrombie2024","paper_title":"A Collaborative, Human-Centred Taxonomy of AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Harms","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Political and Economic ","risk_subcategory":"Institutional trust loss ","description":"\"Institutional trust loss - Erosion of trust in public institutions and weakened checks and balances due to mis/disinformation, influence operations, over-dependence on technology, etc.\"","entity":"Other","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":3,"subdomain":"3.2"},{"ev_id":"61.02.20","quick_ref":"Uuk2025","paper_title":"A Taxonomy of Systemic Risks from General-Purpose AI ","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Sources of systemic risks from general-purpose AI ","risk_subcategory":"Detection challenges in content","description":"\"The difficulty in distinguishing synthetic content from authentic material adds to information risks.\"","entity":"Other","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":3,"subdomain":"3.2"},{"ev_id":"66.03.02","quick_ref":"Li2025","paper_title":"A Closer Look at the Existing Risks of Generative AI: Mapping the Who, What, and How of Real-World Incidents","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Misinformation Harms ","risk_subcategory":"Pollution of information ecosystems","description":"\"Contaminating publicly available information with false or inaccurate information (i.e., the generative tool's output is disseminated beyond the end user)\"","entity":"Other","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":3,"subdomain":"3.2"},{"ev_id":"66.03.03","quick_ref":"Li2025","paper_title":"A Closer Look at the Existing Risks of Generative AI: Mapping the Who, What, and How of Real-World Incidents","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Misinformation Harms ","risk_subcategory":"Erosion of trust in public information","description":"\"Eroding trust in public information and knowledge\"","entity":"Other","intent":"Other","timing":"Other","domain":3,"subdomain":"3.2"},{"ev_id":"66.04.01","quick_ref":"Li2025","paper_title":"A Closer Look at the Existing Risks of Generative AI: Mapping the Who, What, and How of Real-World Incidents","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Societal and Cultural","risk_subcategory":"Overburdening ecosystems","description":"\"Pollution of a space/ecosystem that is expected to be free of AI involvement/influence (e.g., creative material submission portals, job applications)\"","entity":"Other","intent":"Other","timing":"Other","domain":3,"subdomain":"3.2"},{"ev_id":"67.01.01","quick_ref":"DSIT2023","paper_title":"Capabilities and Risks from Frontier AI","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Societal harms ","risk_subcategory":"Degradation of the information environment","description":"\"Frontier AI can cheaply generate realistic content which can falsely portray people and events. There is potential risk of compromised decision-making by individuals and institutions who rely on inaccurate or misleading publicly available information, as well as lower overall trust in true information.\"","entity":"Other","intent":"Other","timing":"Other","domain":3,"subdomain":"3.2"}]}