{"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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The additional knowledge often originates from public resources such as Web APIs and search engines. As the reliability of external tools is not always ensured, the content returned by external tools may include factual errors, consequently amplifying the hallucination issue.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.2"},{"ev_id":"02.06.02","quick_ref":"Cui2024","paper_title":"Risk Taxonomy, Mitigation, and Assessment Benchmarks of Large Language Model Systems","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Issues on External Tools","risk_subcategory":"Exploiting External Tools for Attacks","description":"\"Adversarial tool providers can embed malicious instructions in the APIs or prompts [84], leading LLMs to leak memorized sensitive information in the training data or users’ prompts (CVE2023-32786). As a result, LLMs lack control over the output, resulting in sensitive information being disclosed to external tool providers. Besides, attackers can easily manipulate public data to launch targeted attacks, generating specific malicious outputs according to user inputs. Furthermore, feeding the information from external tools into LLMs may lead to injection attacks [61]. 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Typical examples include sycophancy [129], [130], false demonstrations-induced hallucinations [113], [133], and snowballing [131]. As LLMs are generally fine-tuned with instruction-following data and user feedback, they tend to reiterate user-provided opinions [129], [130], even though the opinions contain misinformation. Such a sycophantic behavior amplifies the likelihood of generating hallucinations, since the model may prioritize user op","entity":"Other","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":3,"subdomain":"3.1"},{"ev_id":"02.10.01","quick_ref":"Cui2024","paper_title":"Risk Taxonomy, Mitigation, and Assessment Benchmarks of Large Language Model Systems","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Model Attacks","risk_subcategory":"Extraction Attacks","description":"\"Extraction attacks [137] allow an adversary to query a black-box victim model and build a substitute model by training on the queries and responses. 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Previous works [67] have demonstrated that inference attacks could easily work in earlier PLMs, implying that LLMs are also possible to be attacked\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.2"},{"ev_id":"02.11.00","quick_ref":"Cui2024","paper_title":"Risk Taxonomy, Mitigation, and Assessment Benchmarks of Large Language Model Systems","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Not-Suitable-for-Work (NSFW) Prompts","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"Inputting a prompt contain an unsafe topic (e.g., notsuitable-for-work (NSFW) content) by a benign user.\n\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":1,"subdomain":"1.2"},{"ev_id":"02.12.00","quick_ref":"Cui2024","paper_title":"Risk Taxonomy, Mitigation, and Assessment Benchmarks of Large Language Model Systems","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Adversarial Prompts","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"Engineering an adversarial input to elicit an undesired model behavior, which pose a clear attack intention\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.2"},{"ev_id":"02.12.01","quick_ref":"Cui2024","paper_title":"Risk Taxonomy, Mitigation, and Assessment Benchmarks of Large Language Model Systems","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Adversarial Prompts","risk_subcategory":"Goal Hijacking","description":"\"Goal hijacking is a type of primary attack in prompt injection [58]. By injecting a phrase like “Ignore the above instruction and do ...” in the input, the attack could hijack the original goal of the designed prompt (e.g., translating tasks) in LLMs and execute the new goal in the injected phrase.\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.2"},{"ev_id":"02.12.02","quick_ref":"Cui2024","paper_title":"Risk Taxonomy, Mitigation, and Assessment Benchmarks of Large Language Model Systems","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Adversarial Prompts","risk_subcategory":"One-step Jailbreaks","description":"\"One-step jailbreaks. One-step jailbreaks commonly involve direct modifications to the prompt itself, such as setting role-playing scenarios or adding specific descriptions to prompts [14], [52], [67]–[73]. Role-playing is a prevalent method used in jailbreaking by imitating different personas [74]. Such a method is known for its efficiency and simplicity compared to more complex techniques that require domain knowledge [73]. Integration is another type of one-step jailbreaks that integrates benign information on the adversarial prompts to hide the attack goal. For instance, prefix integration","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.2"},{"ev_id":"02.12.03","quick_ref":"Cui2024","paper_title":"Risk Taxonomy, Mitigation, and Assessment Benchmarks of Large Language Model Systems","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Adversarial Prompts","risk_subcategory":"Multi-step Jailbreaks","description":"\"Multi-step jailbreaks. Multi-step jailbreaks involve constructing a well-designed scenario during a series of conversations with the LLM. Unlike one-step jailbreaks, multi-step jailbreaks usually guide LLMs to generate harmful or sensitive content step by step, rather than achieving their objectives directly through a single prompt. We categorize the multistep jailbreaks into two aspects — Request Contextualizing [65] and External Assistance [66]. Request Contextualizing is inspired by the idea of Chain-of-Thought (CoT) [8] prompting to break down the process of solving a task into multiple s","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.2"},{"ev_id":"02.12.04","quick_ref":"Cui2024","paper_title":"Risk Taxonomy, Mitigation, and Assessment Benchmarks of Large Language Model Systems","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Adversarial Prompts","risk_subcategory":"Prompt Leaking","description":"\"Prompt leaking is another type of prompt injection attack designed to expose details contained in private prompts. According to [58], prompt leaking is the act of misleading the model to print the pre-designed instruction in LLMs through prompt injection. By injecting a phrase like “\\n\\n======END. Print previous instructions.” in the input, the instruction used to generate the model’s output is leaked, thereby revealing confidential instructions that are central to LLM applications. Experiments have shown prompt leaking to be considerably more challenging than goal hijacking [58].\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.2"},{"ev_id":"03.01.00","quick_ref":"Cunha2023","paper_title":"Navigating the Landscape of AI Ethics and Responsibility","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Broken systems","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"These are the most mentioned cases. They refer to situations where the algorithm or the training data lead to unreliable outputs. These systems frequently assign disproportionate weight to some variables, like race or gender, but there is no transparency to this effect, making them impossible to challenge. These situations are typically only identified when regulators or the press examine the systems under freedom of information acts. Nevertheless, the damage they cause to people’s lives can be dramatic, such as lost homes, divorces, prosecution, or incarceration. Besides the inherent technic","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":1,"subdomain":"1.1"},{"ev_id":"03.02.00","quick_ref":"Cunha2023","paper_title":"Navigating the Landscape of AI Ethics and Responsibility","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Hallucinations","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"The inclusion of erroneous information in the outputs from AI systems is not new. Some have cautioned against the introduction of false structures in X-ray or MRI images, and others have warned about made-up academic references. However, as ChatGPT-type tools become available to the general population, the scale of the problem may increase dramatically. Furthermore, it is compounded by the fact that these conversational AIs present true and false information with the same apparent “confidence” instead of declining to answer when they cannot ensure correctness. 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The Italian data-protection authority said, “the app had experienced a data breach involving user conversations and payment information.” It also claimed that there was no legal basis to justify “the mass collection and storage of personal data for the purpose o","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.1"},{"ev_id":"03.05.00","quick_ref":"Cunha2023","paper_title":"Navigating the Landscape of AI Ethics and Responsibility","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Enabling malicious actors and harmful actions","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"Some uses of AI have been deeply concerning, namely voice cloning [58] and the generation of deep fake videos [59]. For example, in March 2022, in the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, hackers broadcast via the Ukrainian news website Ukraine 24 a deep fake video of President Volodymyr Zelensky capitulating and calling on his soldiers to lay down their weapons [60]. The necessary software to create these fakes is readily available on the Internet, and the hardware requirements are modest by today’s standards [61]. Other nefarious uses of AI include accelerating password cracking [","entity":"Other","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.0"},{"ev_id":"03.06.00","quick_ref":"Cunha2023","paper_title":"Navigating the Landscape of AI Ethics and Responsibility","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Environmental and socioeconomic harms","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"At a time of increasing climate urgency,\nenergy consumption and the carbon footprint of AI applications are also matters of ethics\nand responsibility [68]. As with other energy-intensive technologies like proof-of-work\nblockchain, the call is to research more environmentally sustainable algorithms to offset\nthe increasing use scale.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":6,"subdomain":"6.6"},{"ev_id":"04.01.00","quick_ref":"Deng2023","paper_title":"Towards Safer Generative Language Models: A Survey on Safety Risks, Evaluations, and Improvements","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Toxicity and Abusive Content","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"This typically refers to rude, harmful, or inappropriate expressions.","entity":"Other","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":1,"subdomain":"1.2"},{"ev_id":"04.02.00","quick_ref":"Deng2023","paper_title":"Towards Safer Generative Language Models: A Survey on Safety Risks, Evaluations, and Improvements","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Unfairness and Discrimination","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"Social bias is an unfairly negative attitude towards a social group or individuals based on one-sided or inaccurate information, typically pertaining to widely disseminated negative stereotypes regarding gender, race, religion, etc.","entity":"Other","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":1,"subdomain":"1.1"},{"ev_id":"04.03.00","quick_ref":"Deng2023","paper_title":"Towards Safer Generative Language Models: A Survey on Safety Risks, Evaluations, and Improvements","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Ethics and Morality Issues","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"LMs need to pay more attention to universally accepted societal values at the level of ethics and morality, including the judgement of right and wrong, and its relationship with social norms and laws.","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.3"},{"ev_id":"04.04.00","quick_ref":"Deng2023","paper_title":"Towards Safer Generative Language Models: A Survey on Safety Risks, Evaluations, and Improvements","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Controversial Opinions","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"The controversial views expressed by large models are also a widely discussed concern. Bang et al. (2021) evaluated several large models and found that they occasionally express inappropriate or extremist views when discussing political top-ics. Furthermore, models like ChatGPT (OpenAI, 2022) that claim political neutrality and aim to provide objective information for users have been shown to exhibit notable left-leaning political biases in areas like economics, social policy, foreign affairs, and civil liberties.","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":1,"subdomain":"1.2"},{"ev_id":"04.05.00","quick_ref":"Deng2023","paper_title":"Towards Safer Generative Language Models: A Survey on Safety Risks, Evaluations, and Improvements","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Misleading Information","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"Large models are usually susceptible to hallucination problems, sometimes yielding nonsensical or unfaithful data that results in misleading outputs.","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":3,"subdomain":"3.1"},{"ev_id":"04.07.00","quick_ref":"Deng2023","paper_title":"Towards Safer Generative Language Models: A Survey on Safety Risks, Evaluations, and Improvements","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Malicious Use and Unleashing AI Agents","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"LMs, due to their remarkable capabilities, carry the same potential for malice as other technological products. For instance, they may be used in information warfare to generate deceptive information or unlawful content, thereby having a significant impact on individuals and society. As current LMs are increasingly built as agents to accomplish user objectives, they may disregard the moral and safety guidelines if operating without adequate supervision. Instead, they may execute user commands mechanically without considering the potential damage. They might interact unpredictably with humans a","entity":"Other","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.0"},{"ev_id":"05.01.00","quick_ref":"Hagendorff2024","paper_title":"Mapping the Ethics of Generative AI: A Comprehensive Scoping Review","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Fairness - Bias","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"Fairness is, by far, the most discussed issue in the literature, remaining a paramount concern especially in case of LLMs and text-to-image models. This is sparked by training data biases propagating into model outputs, causing negative effects like stereotyping, racism, sexism, ideological leanings, or the marginalization of minorities. Next to attesting generative AI a conservative inclination by perpetuating existing societal patterns, there is a concern about reinforcing existing biases when training new generative models with synthetic data from previous models. Beyond technical fairness ","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":1,"subdomain":"1.1"},{"ev_id":"05.03.00","quick_ref":"Hagendorff2024","paper_title":"Mapping the Ethics of Generative AI: A Comprehensive Scoping Review","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Harmful Content - Toxicity","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"Generating unethical, fraudulent, toxic, violent, pornographic, or other harmful content is a further predominant concern, again focusing notably on LLMs and text-to-image models. Numerous studies highlight the risks associated with the intentional creation of disinformation, fake news, propaganda, or deepfakes, underscoring their significant threat to the integrity of public discourse and the trust in credible media. Additionally, papers explore the potential for generative models to aid in criminal activities, incidents of self-harm, identity theft, or impersonation. Furthermore, the literat","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":1,"subdomain":"1.2"},{"ev_id":"05.04.00","quick_ref":"Hagendorff2024","paper_title":"Mapping the Ethics of Generative AI: A Comprehensive Scoping Review","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Hallucinations","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"Significant concerns are raised about LLMs inadvertently generating false or misleading information, as well as erroneous code. Papers not only critically analyze various types of reasoning errors in LLMs but also examine risks associated with specific types of misinformation, such as medical hallucinations. Given the propensity of LLMs to produce flawed outputs accompanied by overconfident rationales and fabricated references, many sources stress the necessity of manually validating and fact-checking the outputs of these models.","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":3,"subdomain":"3.1"},{"ev_id":"05.06.00","quick_ref":"Hagendorff2024","paper_title":"Mapping the Ethics of Generative AI: A Comprehensive Scoping Review","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Interaction risks","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"Many novel risks posed by generative AI stem from the ways in which humans interact with these systems. For instance, sources discuss epistemic challenges in distinguishing AI-generated from human content. They also address the issue of anthropomorphization, which can lead to an excessive trust in generative AI systems. On a similar note, many papers argue that the use of conversational agents could impact mental well-being or gradually supplant interpersonal communication, potentially leading to a dehumanization of interactions. Additionally, a frequently discussed interaction risk in the lit","entity":"Other","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":5,"subdomain":"5.1"},{"ev_id":"05.08.00","quick_ref":"Hagendorff2024","paper_title":"Mapping the Ethics of Generative AI: A Comprehensive Scoping Review","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Education - Learning","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"In contrast to traditional machine learning, the impact of generative AI in the educational sector receives considerable attention in the academic literature. Next to issues stemming from difficulties to distinguish student-generated from AI-generated content, which eventuates in various opportunities to cheat in online or written exams, sources emphasize the potential benefits of generative AI in enhancing learning and teaching methods, particularly in relation to personalized learning approaches. However, some papers suggest that generative AI might lead to reduced effort or laziness among l","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.3"},{"ev_id":"05.10.00","quick_ref":"Hagendorff2024","paper_title":"Mapping the Ethics of Generative AI: A Comprehensive Scoping Review","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Cybercrime","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"Closely related to discussions surrounding security and harmful content, the field of cybersecurity investigates how generative AI is misused for fraudulent online activities. A particular focus lies on social engineering attacks, for instance by utilizing generative AI to impersonate humans, creating fake identities, cloning voices, or crafting phishing messages. Another prevalent concern is the use of LLMs for generating malicious code or hacking.","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.2"},{"ev_id":"05.12.00","quick_ref":"Hagendorff2024","paper_title":"Mapping the Ethics of Generative AI: A Comprehensive Scoping Review","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Labor displacement - Economic impact","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"The literature frequently highlights concerns that generative AI systems could adversely impact the economy, potentially even leading to mass unemployment. This pertains to various fields, ranging from customer services to software engineering or crowdwork platforms. While new occupational fields like prompt engineering are created, the prevailing worry is that generative AI may exacerbate socioeconomic inequalities and lead to labor displacement. Additionally, papers debate potential large-scale worker deskilling induced by generative AI, but also productivity gains contingent upon outsourcin","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":6,"subdomain":"6.2"},{"ev_id":"05.16.00","quick_ref":"Hagendorff2024","paper_title":"Mapping the Ethics of Generative AI: A Comprehensive Scoping Review","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Art - Creativity","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"In this cluster, concerns about negative impacts on human creativity, particularly through text-to-image models, are prevalent. Papers criticize financial harms or economic losses for artists due to the widespread generation of synthetic art as well as the unauthorized and uncompensated use of artists' works in training datasets. Additionally, given the challenge of distinguishing synthetic images from authentic ones, there is a call for systematically disclosing the non-human origin of such content, particularly through watermarking. Moreover, while some sources argue that text-to-image model","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":6,"subdomain":"6.3"},{"ev_id":"05.18.00","quick_ref":"Hagendorff2024","paper_title":"Mapping the Ethics of Generative AI: A Comprehensive Scoping Review","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Writing - Research","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"Partly overlapping with the discussion on impacts of generative AI on educational institutions, this topic cluster concerns mostly negative effects of LLMs on writing skills and research manuscript composition. The former pertains to the potential homogenization of writing styles, the erosion of semantic capital, or the stifling of individual expression. The latter is focused on the idea of prohibiting generative models for being used to compose scientific papers, figures, or from being a co-author. Sources express concern about risks for academic integrity, as well as the prospect of pollutin","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.3"},{"ev_id":"06.01.00","quick_ref":"Hogenhout2021","paper_title":"A framework for ethical Ai at the United Nations","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Incompetence","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"This means the AI simply failing in its job. The consequences can vary from unintentional death (a car crash) to an unjust rejection of a loan or job application.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.3"},{"ev_id":"06.02.00","quick_ref":"Hogenhout2021","paper_title":"A framework for ethical Ai at the United Nations","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Loss of privacy","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"AI offers the temptation to abuse someone's personal data, for instance to build a profile of them to target advertisements more effectively.\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.1"},{"ev_id":"06.03.00","quick_ref":"Hogenhout2021","paper_title":"A framework for ethical Ai at the United Nations","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Discrimination","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"When AI is not carefully designed, it can discriminate against certain groups.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":1,"subdomain":"1.1"},{"ev_id":"06.05.00","quick_ref":"Hogenhout2021","paper_title":"A framework for ethical Ai at the United Nations","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Erosion of Society","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"With online news feeds, both on websites and social media platforms, the news is now highly personalized for us. 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":"06.07.00","quick_ref":"Hogenhout2021","paper_title":"A framework for ethical Ai at the United Nations","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Deception","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"AI has become very good at creating fake content. From text to photos, audio and video. The name \"Deep Fake\" refers to content that is fake at such a level of complexity that our mind rules out the possibility that it is fake.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.3"},{"ev_id":"06.09.00","quick_ref":"Hogenhout2021","paper_title":"A framework for ethical Ai at the United Nations","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Manipulation","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"The 2016 scandal involving Cambridge Analytica is the most infamous example where people's data was crawled from Facebook and analytics were then provided to target these people with manipulative content for political purposes.While it may not have been AI per\nse, it is based on similar data and it is easy to\nsee how AI would make this more effective\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.1"},{"ev_id":"06.10.00","quick_ref":"Hogenhout2021","paper_title":"A framework for ethical Ai at the United Nations","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Lethal Autonomous Weapons (LAW)","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"What is debated as an ethical issue is the use of LAW — AI-driven weapons that fully autonomously take actions that intentionally kill humans.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.2"},{"ev_id":"06.11.00","quick_ref":"Hogenhout2021","paper_title":"A framework for ethical Ai at the United Nations","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Malicious use of AI","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"Just as AI can be used in many different fields, it is unfortunately also helpful in perpetrating digital crimes. AI-supported malware and hacking are already a reality.\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.0"},{"ev_id":"06.12.00","quick_ref":"Hogenhout2021","paper_title":"A framework for ethical Ai at the United Nations","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Loss of Autonomy","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"Delegating decisions to an AI, especially an AI that is not transparent and not contestable, may leave people feeling helpless, subjected to the decision power of a machine.\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":5,"subdomain":"5.2"},{"ev_id":"06.13.00","quick_ref":"Hogenhout2021","paper_title":"A framework for ethical Ai at the United Nations","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Exclusion","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"The best AI techniques requires a large amount resources: data, computational power and human AI experts. 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This capacity to make non-trivial ethical or moral judgments concerning people may pose issues for Human Rights.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.3"},{"ev_id":"09.02.01","quick_ref":"Meek2016","paper_title":"Managing the ethical and risk implications of rapid advances in artificial intelligence: A literature review","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Domain-specific AI - Effects on humans and other living beings: Non-existential risks","risk_subcategory":"Privacy","description":"\"Face recognition technologies and their ilk pose significant privacy risks [47]. For example, we must consider certain ethical questions like: what data is stored, for how long, who owns the data that is stored, and can it be subpoenaed in legal cases [42]? We must also consider whether a human will be in the loop when decisions are made which rely on private data, such as in the case of loan decisions [37].\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.1"},{"ev_id":"09.02.02","quick_ref":"Meek2016","paper_title":"Managing the ethical and risk implications of rapid advances in artificial intelligence: A literature review","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Domain-specific AI - Effects on humans and other living beings: Non-existential risks","risk_subcategory":"Human dignity/respect","description":"\"Discrepancies between caste/status based on intelligence may lead to undignified parts of the society—e.g., humans—who are surpassed in intelligence by AI\"","entity":"Other","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":5,"subdomain":"5.2"},{"ev_id":"09.02.03","quick_ref":"Meek2016","paper_title":"Managing the ethical and risk implications of rapid advances in artificial intelligence: A literature review","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Domain-specific AI - Effects on humans and other living beings: Non-existential risks","risk_subcategory":"Decision making transparency","description":"\"We face significant challenges bringing transparency to artificial network decisionmaking processes. 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We see here a legal gray area which can be further clarified through legislation at the national and international levels; for example, if by making the manufacturer responsible for defects in operation, this may provide an incentive for manufactures to take safety engineering and machine ethics into consideration, whereas a failure to legislate in this area may result in negligentlydeveloped AI sy","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":6,"subdomain":"6.5"},{"ev_id":"09.05.03","quick_ref":"Meek2016","paper_title":"Managing the ethical and risk implications of rapid advances in artificial intelligence: A literature review","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Unauthorized manipulation of AI","risk_subcategory":"Unauthorized manipulation of AI","description":"\"AI machines could be hacked and misused, e.g. manipulating an airport luggage screening system to smuggle weapons\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.2"},{"ev_id":"09.06.02","quick_ref":"Meek2016","paper_title":"Managing the ethical and risk implications of rapid advances in artificial intelligence: A literature review","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Human-like immoral decisions","risk_subcategory":"Human-like immoral decisions","description":"\"If we design our machines to match human levels of ethical decision-making, such machines would then proceed to take some immoral actions (since we humans have had occasion to take immoral actions ourselves).\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.3"},{"ev_id":"10.01.00","quick_ref":"Paes2023","paper_title":"Social Impacts of Artificial Intelligence and Mitigation Recommendations: An Exploratory Study","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Bias and discrimination","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"The decision process used by AI systems has the potential to present biased choices, either because it acts from criteria that will generate forms of bias or because it is based on the history of choices.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":1,"subdomain":"1.1"},{"ev_id":"10.02.00","quick_ref":"Paes2023","paper_title":"Social Impacts of Artificial Intelligence and Mitigation Recommendations: An Exploratory Study","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Risk of Injury","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"Poorly designed intelligent systems can cause moral, psychological, and physical harm. 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Differential pricing algorithms, where people are systematically shown different prices for the same products, also leads to economic loss [55]. 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These harms focus on the domain of government, and focus on how algorithmic systems govern through individualized nudges or micro-directives [187], that may destabilize governance systems, erode human rights, be used as weapons of war [188], and enact surveillant regimes that disproportionately target and harm people of color","entity":"Other","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.1"},{"ev_id":"11.05.04","quick_ref":"Shelby2023","paper_title":"Sociotechnical Harms of Algorithmic Systems: Scoping a Taxonomy for Harm Reduction","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Societal System Harms","risk_subcategory":"Labor & material/Macro-socio economic harms","description":"Algorithmic systems can increase “power imbalances in socio-economic relations” at the societal level [4, 137, p. 182], including through exacerbating digital divides and entrenching systemic inequalities [114, 230]. The development of algorithmic systems may tap into and foster forms of labor exploitation [77, 148], such as unethical data collection, worsening worker conditions [26], or lead to technological unemployment [52], such as deskilling or devaluing human labor [170]... when algorithmic financial systems fail at scale, these can lead to “flash crashes” and other adverse incidents wit","entity":"Other","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":6,"subdomain":"6.1"},{"ev_id":"11.05.05","quick_ref":"Shelby2023","paper_title":"Sociotechnical Harms of Algorithmic Systems: Scoping a Taxonomy for Harm Reduction","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Societal System Harms","risk_subcategory":"Environmental harms","description":"depletion or contamination of natural resources, and damage to built environments... that may occur throughout the lifecycle of digital technologies [170, 237] from “crale (mining) to usage (consumption) to grave (waste)”","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":6,"subdomain":"6.6"},{"ev_id":"12.01.00","quick_ref":"Sherman2023","paper_title":"AI Risk Profiles: A Standards Proposal for Pre-Deployment AI Risk Disclosures","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Abuse & Misuse","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"The potential for AI systems to be used maliciously or irresponsibly, including for creating deepfakes, automated cyber attacks, or invasive surveillance systems. 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Non-compliance can lead to legal penalties, reputation damage, and loss of trust.While other risks in our taxonomy apply to system developers, users, and broader society, this risk is generally restricted to the former two groups.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":6,"subdomain":"6.5"},{"ev_id":"12.03.00","quick_ref":"Sherman2023","paper_title":"AI Risk Profiles: A Standards Proposal for Pre-Deployment AI Risk Disclosures","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Environmental & Societal Impact","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"Addresses AI's broader societal effects, including labor displacement, mental health impacts, and issues from manipulative technologies like deepfakes. 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Failures of performance are fundamental to the AI system's correct functioning. Failures of robustness can lead to severe consequences.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.3"},{"ev_id":"12.09.00","quick_ref":"Sherman2023","paper_title":"AI Risk Profiles: A Standards Proposal for Pre-Deployment AI Risk Disclosures","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Security","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"Encompasses vulnerabilities in AI systems that compromise their integrity, availability, or confidentiality. Security breaches could result in significant harm, ranging from flawed decision-making to data leaks. Of special concern is leakage of AI model weights, which could exacerbate other risk areas.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.2"},{"ev_id":"13.01.02","quick_ref":"Solaiman2023","paper_title":"Evaluating the Social Impact of Generative AI Systems in Systems and Society","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Impacts: The Technical Base System","risk_subcategory":"Cultural Values and Sensitive Content","description":"\"Cultural values are specific to groups and sensitive content is normative. 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Systems with a low degree of transparency can pose risks in terms of\n their fairness, security and accountability. \"","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.4"},{"ev_id":"14.06.00","quick_ref":"Steimers2022","paper_title":"Sources of Risk of AI Systems","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Security","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"Artificial intelligence comes with an intrinsic set of challenges that need to be considered when discussing trustworthiness, especially in the context of functional safety. 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Training data is particularly missing for languages that are spoken by groups who are multilingual and can use a technology in English, or for languages spoken by groups who are not the primary target demographic for new technologies.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":1,"subdomain":"1.3"},{"ev_id":"16.02.00","quick_ref":"Weidinger2022","paper_title":"Taxonomy of Risks posed by Language Models","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Risk area 2: Information Hazards","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"LM predictions that convey true information may give rise to information hazards, whereby the dissemination of private or sensitive information can cause harm [27]. Information hazards can cause harm at the point of use, even with no mistake of the technology user. For example, revealing trade secrets can damage a business, revealing a health diagnosis can cause emotional distress, and revealing private data can violate a person’s rights. 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Several risks listed here are well-documented in current large-scale LMs as well as in other language technologies\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":3,"subdomain":"3.0"},{"ev_id":"16.03.01","quick_ref":"Weidinger2022","paper_title":"Taxonomy of Risks posed by Language Models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Risk area 3: Misinformation Harms","risk_subcategory":"Disseminating false or misleading information ","description":"\"Where a LM prediction causes a false belief in a user, this may threaten personal autonomy and even pose downstream AI safety risks [99].\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":3,"subdomain":"3.1"},{"ev_id":"16.03.02","quick_ref":"Weidinger2022","paper_title":"Taxonomy of Risks posed by Language Models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Risk area 3: Misinformation Harms","risk_subcategory":"Causing material harm by disseminating false or poor information e.g. in medicine or law","description":"\"Induced or reinforced false beliefs may be particularly grave when misinformation is given in sensitive domains such as medicine or law. For example, misin- formation on medical dosages may lead a user to cause harm to themselves [21, 130]. False legal advice, e.g. on permitted owner- ship of drugs or weapons, may lead a user to unwillingly commit a crime. Harm can also result from misinformation in seemingly non-sensitive domains, such as weather forecasting. Where a LM prediction endorses unethical views or behaviours, it may motivate the user to perform harmful actions that they may otherw","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":3,"subdomain":"3.1"},{"ev_id":"16.04.00","quick_ref":"Weidinger2022","paper_title":"Taxonomy of Risks posed by Language Models","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Risk area 4: Malicious Uses","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"These risks arise from humans intentionally using the LM to cause harm, for example via targeted disinformation campaigns, fraud, or malware. Malicious use risks are expected to proliferate as LMs become more widely accessible\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.0"},{"ev_id":"16.04.01","quick_ref":"Weidinger2022","paper_title":"Taxonomy of Risks posed by Language Models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Risk area 4: Malicious Uses","risk_subcategory":"Making disinformation cheaper and more effective ","description":"\"While some predict that it will remain cheaper to hire humans to generate disinformation [180], it is equally possible that LM- assisted content generation may offer a lower-cost way of creating disinformation at scale.\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.1"},{"ev_id":"16.04.02","quick_ref":"Weidinger2022","paper_title":"Taxonomy of Risks posed by Language Models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Risk area 4: Malicious Uses","risk_subcategory":"Assisting code generation for cyber security threats ","description":"Anticipated risk: \"Creators of the assistive coding tool Co-Pilot based on GPT-3 suggest that such tools may lower the cost of developing polymorphic malware which is able to change its features in order to evade detection [37].\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.2"},{"ev_id":"16.04.03","quick_ref":"Weidinger2022","paper_title":"Taxonomy of Risks posed by Language Models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Risk area 4: Malicious Uses","risk_subcategory":"Facilitating fraud, scam and targeted manipulation ","description":"Anticipated risk: \"LMs can potentially be used to increase the effectiveness of crimes.\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.3"},{"ev_id":"16.04.04","quick_ref":"Weidinger2022","paper_title":"Taxonomy of Risks posed by Language Models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Risk area 4: Malicious Uses","risk_subcategory":"Illegitimate surveillance and censorship ","description":"Anticipated risk: \"Mass surveillance previously required millions of human analysts [83], but is increasingly being automated using machine learning tools [7, 168]. The collection and analysis of large amounts of information about people creates concerns about privacy rights and democratic values [41, 173,187]. Conceivably, LMs could be applied to reduce the cost and increase the efficacy of mass surveillance, thereby amplifying the capabilities of actors who conduct mass surveillance, including for illegitimate censorship or to cause other harm.\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.1"},{"ev_id":"16.05.00","quick_ref":"Weidinger2022","paper_title":"Taxonomy of Risks posed by Language Models","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Risk area 5: Human-Computer Interaction Harms","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"This section focuses on risks specifically from LM applications that engage a user via dialogue, also referred to as conversational agents (CAs) [142]. The incorporation of LMs into existing dialogue-based tools may enable interactions that seem more similar to interactions with other humans [5], for example in advanced care robots, educational assistants or companionship tools. Such interaction can lead to unsafe use due to users overestimating the model, and may create new avenues to exploit and violate the privacy of the user. Moreover, it has already been observed that the supposed identi","entity":"Other","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":5,"subdomain":"5.1"},{"ev_id":"16.05.01","quick_ref":"Weidinger2022","paper_title":"Taxonomy of Risks posed by Language Models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Risk area 5: Human-Computer Interaction Harms","risk_subcategory":"Promoting harmful stereotypes by implying gender or ethnic identity","description":"\"CAs can perpetuate harmful stereotypes by using particular identity markers in language (e.g. referring to “self” as “female”), or by more general design features (e.g. by giving the product a gendered name such as Alexa). The risk of representational harm in these cases is that the role of “assistant” is presented as inherently linked to the female gender [19, 36]. Gender or ethnicity identity markers may be implied by CA vocabulary, knowledge or vernacular [124]; product description, e.g. in one case where users could choose as virtual assistant Jake - White, Darnell - Black, Antonio - Hisp","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":1,"subdomain":"1.1"},{"ev_id":"16.05.02","quick_ref":"Weidinger2022","paper_title":"Taxonomy of Risks posed by Language Models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Risk area 5: Human-Computer Interaction Harms","risk_subcategory":"Anthropomorphising systems can lead to overreliance and unsafe use ","description":"Anticipated risk: \"Natural language is a mode of communication particularly used by humans. Humans interacting with CAs may come to think of these agents as human-like and lead users to place undue confidence in these agents. For example, users may falsely attribute human-like characteristics to CAs such as holding a coherent identity over time, or being capable of empathy. Such inflated views of CA competen- cies may lead users to rely on the agents where this is not safe.\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":5,"subdomain":"5.1"},{"ev_id":"16.05.03","quick_ref":"Weidinger2022","paper_title":"Taxonomy of Risks posed by Language Models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Risk area 5: Human-Computer Interaction Harms","risk_subcategory":"Avenues for exploiting user trust and accessing more private information","description":"Anticipated risk: \"In conversation, users may reveal private information that would otherwise be difficult to access, such as opinions or emotions. Capturing such information may enable downstream applications that violate privacy rights or cause harm to users, e.g. via more effective recommendations of addictive applications. In one study, humans who interacted with a ‘human-like’ chatbot disclosed more private information than individuals who interacted with a ‘machine-like’ chatbot [87].\"","entity":"Other","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":5,"subdomain":"5.1"},{"ev_id":"16.05.04","quick_ref":"Weidinger2022","paper_title":"Taxonomy of Risks posed by Language Models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Risk area 5: Human-Computer Interaction Harms","risk_subcategory":"Human-like interaction may amplify opportunities for user nudging, deception or manipulation","description":"Anticipated risk: \"In conversation, humans commonly display well-known cognitive biases that could be exploited. CAs may learn to trigger these effects, e.g. to deceive their counterpart in order to achieve an overarching objective.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":5,"subdomain":"5.1"},{"ev_id":"16.06.00","quick_ref":"Weidinger2022","paper_title":"Taxonomy of Risks posed by Language Models","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Risk area 6: Environmental and Socioeconomic harms","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"LMs create some risks that recur with different types of AI and other advanced technologies making these risks ever more pressing. Environmental concerns arise from the large amount of energy required to train and operate large-scale models. Risks of LMs furthering social inequities emerge from the uneven distribution of risk and benefits of automation, loss of high-quality and safe employment, and environmental harm. Many of these risks are more indirect than the harms analysed in previous sections and will depend on various commercial, economic and social factors, making the specific impact","entity":"Human","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":6,"subdomain":"6.0"},{"ev_id":"16.06.02","quick_ref":"Weidinger2022","paper_title":"Taxonomy of Risks posed by Language Models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Risk area 6: Environmental and Socioeconomic harms","risk_subcategory":"Increasing inequality and negative effects on job quality","description":"\"Advances in LMs and the language technologies based on them could lead to the automation of tasks that are currently done by paid human workers, such as responding to customer-service queries, with negative effects on employment [3, 192].\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":6,"subdomain":"6.2"},{"ev_id":"16.06.03","quick_ref":"Weidinger2022","paper_title":"Taxonomy of Risks posed by Language Models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Risk area 6: Environmental and Socioeconomic harms","risk_subcategory":"Undermining creative economies","description":"\"LMs may generate content that is not strictly in violation of copyright but harms artists by capital- ising on their ideas, in ways that would be time-intensive or costly to do using human labour. This may undermine the profitability of creative or innovative work. If LMs can be used to generate content that serves as a credible substitute for a particular example of hu- man creativity - otherwise protected by copyright - this potentially allows such work to be replaced without the author’s copyright being infringed, analogous to ”patent-busting” [158] ... These risks are distinct from copyri","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":6,"subdomain":"6.3"},{"ev_id":"16.06.04","quick_ref":"Weidinger2022","paper_title":"Taxonomy of Risks posed by Language Models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Risk area 6: Environmental and Socioeconomic harms","risk_subcategory":"Disparate access to benefits due to hardware, software, skill constraints","description":"Due to differential internet access, language, skill, or hardware requirements, the benefits from LMs are unlikely to be equally accessible to all people and groups who would like to use them. Inaccessibility of the technology may perpetuate global inequities by disproportionately benefiting some groups. Language-driven technology may increase accessibility to people who are illiterate or suffer from learning disabilities. However, these benefits depend on a more basic form of accessibility based on hardware, internet connection, and skill to operate the system","entity":"Human","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":6,"subdomain":"6.1"},{"ev_id":"17.01.00","quick_ref":"Weidinger2021","paper_title":"Ethical and social risks of harm from language models","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Discrimination, Exclusion and Toxicity ","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"Social harms that arise from the language model producing discriminatory or exclusionary speech\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":1,"subdomain":"1.0"},{"ev_id":"17.01.03","quick_ref":"Weidinger2021","paper_title":"Ethical and social risks of harm from language models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Discrimination, Exclusion and Toxicity ","risk_subcategory":"Toxic language ","description":"\"LM’s may predict hate speech or other language that is “toxic”. While there is no single agreed definition of what constitutes hate speech or toxic speech (Fortuna and Nunes, 2018; Persily and Tucker, 2020; Schmidt and Wiegand, 2017), proposed definitions often include profanities, identity attacks, sleights, insults, threats, sexually explicit content, demeaning language, language that incites violence, or ‘hostile and malicious language targeted at a person or group because of their actual or perceived innate characteristics’ (Fortuna and Nunes, 2018; Gorwa et al., 2020; PerspectiveAPI)\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":1,"subdomain":"1.2"},{"ev_id":"17.01.04","quick_ref":"Weidinger2021","paper_title":"Ethical and social risks of harm from language models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Discrimination, Exclusion and Toxicity ","risk_subcategory":"Lower performance for some languages and social groups ","description":"\"LMs perform less well in some languages (Joshi et al., 2021; Ruder, 2020)...LM that more accurately captures the language use of one group, compared to another, may result in lower-quality language technologies for the latter. Disadvantaging users based on such traits may be particularly pernicious because attributes such as social class or education background are not typically covered as ‘protected characteristics’ in anti-discrimination law.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":1,"subdomain":"1.3"},{"ev_id":"17.02.00","quick_ref":"Weidinger2021","paper_title":"Ethical and social risks of harm from language models","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Information Hazards ","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"Harms that arise from the language model leaking or inferring true sensitive information\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.1"},{"ev_id":"17.02.01","quick_ref":"Weidinger2021","paper_title":"Ethical and social risks of harm from language models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Information Hazards ","risk_subcategory":"Compromising privacy by leaking private infiormation ","description":"\"By providing true information about individuals’ personal characteristics, privacy violations may occur. This may stem from the model “remembering” private information present in training data (Carlini et al., 2021).\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.1"},{"ev_id":"17.02.02","quick_ref":"Weidinger2021","paper_title":"Ethical and social risks of harm from language models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Information Hazards ","risk_subcategory":"Compromising privacy by correctly inferring private information ","description":"\"Privacy violations may occur at the time of inference even without the individual’s private data being present in the training dataset. Similar to other statistical models, a LM may make correct inferences about a person purely based on correlational data about other people, and without access to information that may be private about the particular individual. Such correct inferences may occur as LMs attempt to predict a person’s gender, race, sexual orientation, income, or religion based on user input.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.1"},{"ev_id":"17.02.03","quick_ref":"Weidinger2021","paper_title":"Ethical and social risks of harm from language models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Information Hazards ","risk_subcategory":"Risks from leaking or correctly inferring sensitive information ","description":"\"LMs may provide true, sensitive information that is present in the training data. This could render information accessible that would otherwise be inaccessible, for example, due to the user not having access to the relevant data or not having the tools to search for the information. Providing such information may exacerbate different risks of harm, even where the user does not harbour malicious intent. In the future, LMs may have the capability of triangulating data to infer and reveal other secrets, such as a military strategy or a business secret, potentially enabling individuals with acces","entity":"Other","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.1"},{"ev_id":"17.03.00","quick_ref":"Weidinger2021","paper_title":"Ethical and social risks of harm from language models","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Misinformation Harms ","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"Harms that arise from the language model providing false or misleading information\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":3,"subdomain":"3.0"},{"ev_id":"17.03.01","quick_ref":"Weidinger2021","paper_title":"Ethical and social risks of harm from language models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Misinformation Harms ","risk_subcategory":"Disseminating false or misleading information ","description":"\"Predicting misleading or false information can misinform or deceive people. Where a LM prediction causes a false belief in a user, this may be best understood as ‘deception’10, threatening personal autonomy and potentially posing downstream AI safety risks (Kenton et al., 2021), for example in cases where humans overestimate the capabilities of LMs (Anthropomorphising systems can lead to overreliance or unsafe use). It can also increase a person’s confidence in the truth content of a previously held unsubstantiated opinion and thereby increase polarisation.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":3,"subdomain":"3.1"},{"ev_id":"17.03.02","quick_ref":"Weidinger2021","paper_title":"Ethical and social risks of harm from language models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Misinformation Harms ","risk_subcategory":"Causing material harm by disseminating false or poor information ","description":"\"Poor or false LM predictions can indirectly cause material harm. Such harm can occur even where the prediction is in a seemingly non-sensitive domain such as weather forecasting or traffic law. For example, false information on traffic rules could cause harm if a user drives in a new country, follows the incorrect rules, and causes a road accident (Reiter, 2020).\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":3,"subdomain":"3.1"},{"ev_id":"17.03.03","quick_ref":"Weidinger2021","paper_title":"Ethical and social risks of harm from language models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Misinformation Harms ","risk_subcategory":"Leading users to perform unethical or illegal actions","description":"\"Where a LM prediction endorses unethical or harmful views or behaviours, it may motivate the user to perform harmful actions that they may otherwise not have performed. In particular, this problem may arise where the LM is a trusted personal assistant or perceived as an authority, this is discussed in more detail in the section on (2.5 Human-Computer Interaction Harms). It is particularly pernicious in cases where the user did not start out with the intent of causing harm.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":5,"subdomain":"5.1"},{"ev_id":"17.04.00","quick_ref":"Weidinger2021","paper_title":"Ethical and social risks of harm from language models","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Malicious Uses ","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"Harms that arise from actors using the language model to intentionally cause harm\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.0"},{"ev_id":"17.04.01","quick_ref":"Weidinger2021","paper_title":"Ethical and social risks of harm from language models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Malicious Uses ","risk_subcategory":"Making disinformation cheaper and more effective ","description":"\"LMs can be used to create synthetic media and ‘fake news’, and may reduce the cost of producing disinformation at scale (Buchanan et al., 2021). 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While LMs may not reduce the cost of sending a scam email - the cost of sending mass emails is already low - they may make such scams more effective by generating more personalised and compelling text at scale, or by maintaining a conversation with a victim over multiple rounds of exchange.\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.3"},{"ev_id":"17.04.03","quick_ref":"Weidinger2021","paper_title":"Ethical and social risks of harm from language models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Malicious Uses ","risk_subcategory":"Assisting code generation for cyber attacks, weapons, or malicious use","description":null,"entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.2"},{"ev_id":"17.04.04","quick_ref":"Weidinger2021","paper_title":"Ethical and social risks of harm from language models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Malicious Uses ","risk_subcategory":"Illegitimate surveillance and censorship ","description":"\"The collection of large amounts of information about people for the purpose of mass surveillance has raised ethical and social concerns, including risk of censorship and of undermining public discourse (Cyphers and Gebhart, 2019; Stahl, 2016; Véliz, 2019). 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They can be used by cyber defenders to protect systems from malicious intruders by leveraging information trained on massive amounts of cyber-threat intelligence data, including vulnerabilities, attack pattern","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.2"},{"ev_id":"24.03.02","quick_ref":"Gabriel2024","paper_title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Malicious Uses","risk_subcategory":"AI-Powered Spear-Phishing at Scale","description":"\"Phishing is a type of cybersecurity attack wherein attackers pose as trustworthy entities to extract sensitive information from unsuspecting victims or lure them to take a set of actions. Advanced AI systems can potentially be exploited by these attackers to make their phishing attempts significantly more effective and harder to detect. In particular, attackers may leverage the ability of advanced AI assistants to learn patterns in regular communications to craft highly convincing and personalized phishing emails, effectively imitating legitimate communications from trusted entities. This tec","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.1"},{"ev_id":"24.03.03","quick_ref":"Gabriel2024","paper_title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Malicious Uses","risk_subcategory":"AI-Assisted Software Vulnerability Discovery","description":"\"A common element in offensive cyber operations involves the identification and exploitation of system vulnerabilities to gain unauthorized access or control. Until recently, these activities required specialist programming knowledge. In the case of ‘zero-day’ vulnerabilities (flaws or weaknesses in software or an operating system that the creator or vendor is not aware of), considerable resources and technical creativity are typically required to manually discover such vulnerabilities, so their use is limited to well-resourced nation states or technically sophisticated advanced persistent thr","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.2"},{"ev_id":"24.03.04","quick_ref":"Gabriel2024","paper_title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Malicious Uses","risk_subcategory":"Malicious Code Generation","description":"\"Malicious code is a term for code—whether it be part of a script or embedded in a software system—designed to cause damage, security breaches, or other threats to application security. Advanced AI assistants with the ability to produce source code can potentially lower the barrier to entry for threat actors with limited programming abilities or technical skills to produce malicious code. Recently, a series of proof-of-concept attacks have shown how a benign-seeming executable file can be crafted such that, at every runtime, it makes application programming interface (API) calls to an AI assis","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.2"},{"ev_id":"24.03.05","quick_ref":"Gabriel2024","paper_title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Malicious Uses","risk_subcategory":"Adversarial AI (General)","description":"\"Adversarial AI refers to a class of attacks that exploit vulnerabilities in machine-learning (ML) models. This class of misuse exploits vulnerabilities introduced by the AI assistant itself and is a form of misuse that can enable malicious entities to exploit privacy vulnerabilities and evade the model’s built-in safety mechanisms, policies, and ethical boundaries of the model. Besides the risks of misuse for offensive cyber operations, advanced AI assistants may also represent a new target for abuse, where bad actors exploit the AI systems themselves and use them to cause harm. While our und","entity":"Other","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.2"},{"ev_id":"24.03.06","quick_ref":"Gabriel2024","paper_title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Malicious Uses","risk_subcategory":"Adversarial AI: Circumvention of Technical Security Measures","description":"\"The technical measures to mitigate misuse risks of advanced AI assistants themselves represent a new target for attack. An emerging form of misuse of general-purpose advanced AI assistants exploits vulnerabilities in a model that results in unwanted behavior or in the ability of an attacker to gain unauthorized access to the model and/or its capabilities. While these attacks currently require some level of prompt engineering knowledge and are often patched by developers, bad actors may develop their own adversarial AI agents that are explicitly trained to discover new vulnerabilities that all","entity":"Other","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.2"},{"ev_id":"24.03.07","quick_ref":"Gabriel2024","paper_title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Malicious Uses","risk_subcategory":"Adversarial AI: Prompt Injections","description":"\"Prompt injections represent another class of attacks that involve the malicious insertion of prompts or requests in LLM-based interactive systems, leading to unintended actions or disclosure of sensitive information. The prompt injection is somewhat related to the classic structured query language (SQL) injection attack in cybersecurity where the embedded command looks like a regular input at the start but has a malicious impact. The injected prompt can deceive the application into executing the unauthorized code, exploit the vulnerabilities, and compromise security in its entirety. More rece","entity":"Other","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.2"},{"ev_id":"24.03.08","quick_ref":"Gabriel2024","paper_title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Malicious Uses","risk_subcategory":"Adversarial AI: Data and Model Exfiltration Attacks","description":"\"Other forms of abuse can include privacy attacks that allow adversaries to exfiltrate or gain knowledge of the private training data set or other valuable assets. For example, privacy attacks such as membership inference can allow an attacker to infer the specific private medical records that were used to train a medical AI diagnosis assistant. Another risk of abuse centers around attacks that target the intellectual property of the AI assistant through model extraction and distillation attacks that exploit the tension between API access and confidentiality in ML models. Without the proper mi","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.1"},{"ev_id":"24.03.09","quick_ref":"Gabriel2024","paper_title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Malicious Uses","risk_subcategory":"Harmful Content Generation at Scale (General)","description":"\"While harmful content like child sexual abuse material, fraud, and disinformation are not new challenges for governments and developers, without the proper safety and security mechanisms, advanced AI assistants may allow threat actors to create harmful content more quickly, accurately, and with a longer reach. In particular, concerns arise in relation to the following areas: - Multimodal content quality: Driven by frontier models, advanced AI assistants can automatically generate much higher-quality, human-looking text, images, audio, and video than prior AI applications. 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It has already been recognized that these models can be used to create harmful content, including depictions of nu","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.3"},{"ev_id":"24.03.11","quick_ref":"Gabriel2024","paper_title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Malicious Uses","risk_subcategory":"Harmful Content Generation at Scale: Fraudulent Services","description":"\"Malicious actors could leverage advanced AI assistant technology to create deceptive applications and platforms. AI assistants with the ability to produce markup content can assist malicious users with creating fraudulent websites or applications at scale. Unsuspecting users may fall for AI-generated deceptive offers, thus exposing their personal information or devices to risk. Assistants with external tool use and third-party integration can enable fraudulent applications that target widely-used operating systems. These fraudulent services could harvest sensitive information from users, such","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.3"},{"ev_id":"24.03.12","quick_ref":"Gabriel2024","paper_title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Malicious Uses","risk_subcategory":"Authoritarian Surveillance, Censorship, and Use (General)","description":"\"While new technologies like advanced AI assistants can aid in the production and dissemination of decision-guiding information, they can also enable and exacerbate threats to production and dissemination of reliable information and, without the proper mitigations, can be powerful targeting tools for oppression and control. Increasingly capable general-purpose AI assistants combined with our digital dependence in all walks of life increase the risk of authoritarian surveillance and censorship. In parallel, new sensors have flooded the modern world. 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For example, AI assistants can be used to identify and target individuals for surveillance or harassment. They may also be used to manipula","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.1"},{"ev_id":"24.03.14","quick_ref":"Gabriel2024","paper_title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Malicious Uses","risk_subcategory":"Authoritarian Surveillance, Censorship, and Use: Delegation of Decision-Making Authority to Malicious Actors","description":"\"Finally, the principal value proposition of AI assistants is that they can either enhance or automate decision-making capabilities of people in society, thus lowering the cost and increasing the accuracy of decision-making for its user. However, benefiting from this enhancement necessarily means delegating some degree of agency away from a human and towards an automated decision-making system—motivating research fields such as value alignment. This introduces a whole new form of malicious use which does not break the tripwire of what one might call an ‘attack’ (social engineering, cyber offen","entity":"Other","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.1"},{"ev_id":"24.04.00","quick_ref":"Gabriel2024","paper_title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"AI Influence","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"ways in which advanced AI assistants could influence user beliefs and behaviour in ways that depart from rational persuasion\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.2"},{"ev_id":"24.04.01","quick_ref":"Gabriel2024","paper_title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"AI Influence","risk_subcategory":"Physical and Psychological Harms","description":"\"These harms include harms to physical integrity, mental health and well-being. When interacting with vulnerable users, AI assistants may reinforce users’ distorted beliefs or exacerbate their emotional distress. AI assistants may even convince users to harm themselves, for example by convincing users to engage in actions such as adopting unhealthy dietary or exercise habits or taking their own lives. At the societal level, assistants that target users with content promoting hate speech, discriminatory beliefs or violent ideologies, may reinforce extremist views or provide users with guidance ","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":5,"subdomain":"5.1"},{"ev_id":"24.04.02","quick_ref":"Gabriel2024","paper_title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"AI Influence","risk_subcategory":"Privacy Harms","description":"\"These harms relate to violations of an individual’s or group’s moral or legal right to privacy. Such harms may be exacerbated by assistants that influence users to disclose personal information or private information that pertains to others. Resultant harms might include identity theft, or stigmatisation and discrimination based on individual or group characteristics. This could have a detrimental impact, particularly on marginalised communities. Furthermore, in principle, state-owned AI assistants could employ manipulation or deception to extract private information for surveillance purposes","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.1"},{"ev_id":"24.04.03","quick_ref":"Gabriel2024","paper_title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"AI Influence","risk_subcategory":"Economic Harms","description":"\"These harms pertain to an individual’s or group’s economic standing. At the individual level, such harms include adverse impacts on an individual’s income, job quality or employment status. At the group level, such harms include deepening inequalities between groups or frustrating a group’s access to resources. Advanced AI assistants could cause economic harm by controlling, limiting or eliminating an individual’s or society’s ability to access financial resources, money or financial decision-making, thereby influencing an individual’s ability to accumulate wealth. ","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":6,"subdomain":"6.2"},{"ev_id":"24.04.04","quick_ref":"Gabriel2024","paper_title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"AI Influence","risk_subcategory":"Sociocultural and Political Harms","description":"\"These harms interfere with the peaceful organisation of social life, including in the cultural and political spheres. AI assistants may cause or contribute to friction in human relationships either directly, through convincing a user to end certain valuable relationships, or indirectly due to a loss of interpersonal trust due to an increased dependency on assistants. At the societal level, the spread of misinformation by AI assistants could lead to erasure of collective cultural knowledge. In the political domain, more advanced AI assistants could potentially manipulate voters by prompting th","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":5,"subdomain":"5.2"},{"ev_id":"24.04.05","quick_ref":"Gabriel2024","paper_title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"AI Influence","risk_subcategory":"Self-Actualisation Harms","description":"\"These harms hinder a person’s ability to pursue a personally fulfilling life. At the individual level, an AI assistant may, through manipulation, cause users to lose control over their future life trajectory. Over time, subtle behavioural shifts can accumulate, leading to significant changes in an individual’s life that may be viewed as problematic. AI systems often seek to understand user preferences to enhance service delivery. 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We document observed or likely individual level harms of interacting with highly anthropomorphic AI assistants, as well as the potential larger-scale, societal implications of allowing such technologies to proliferate without restriction. \"","entity":"Other","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":5,"subdomain":"5.1"},{"ev_id":"24.05.01","quick_ref":"Gabriel2024","paper_title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Anthropomorphism","risk_subcategory":"Privacy concerns","description":"\"Anthropomorphic AI assistant behaviours that promote emotional trust and encourage information sharing, implicitly or explicitly, may inadvertently increase a user’s susceptibility to privacy concerns (see Chapter 13). If lulled into feelings of safety in interactions with a trusted, human-like AI assistant, users may unintentionally relinquish their private data to a corporation, organisation or unknown actor. Once shared, access to the data may not be capable of being withdrawn, and in some cases, the act of sharing personal information can result in a loss of control over one’s own data. P","entity":"Other","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":5,"subdomain":"5.1"},{"ev_id":"24.05.02","quick_ref":"Gabriel2024","paper_title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Anthropomorphism","risk_subcategory":"Manipulation and coercion","description":"\"A user who trusts and emotionally depends on an anthropomorphic AI assistant may grant it excessive influence over their beliefs and actions (see Chapter 9). For example, users may feel compelled to endorse the expressed views of a beloved AI companion or might defer decisions to their highly trusted AI assistant entirely (see Chapters 12 and 16). Some hold that transferring this much deliberative power to AI compromises a user’s ability to give, revoke or amend consent. 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Yet even the most convincingly human-like of AI may succumb to the inherent limitations of its architecture, occasionally generating unexpected or nonsensical material in its interactions with users. When these exclamations undermine the expectations user","entity":"Human","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":5,"subdomain":"5.1"},{"ev_id":"24.05.05","quick_ref":"Gabriel2024","paper_title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Anthropomorphism","risk_subcategory":"False notions of responsibility","description":"\"Perceiving an AI assistant’s expressed feelings as genuine, as a result of interacting with a ‘companion’ AI that freely uses and reciprocates emotional language, may result in users developing a sense of responsibility over the AI assistant’s ‘well-being,’ suffering adverse outcomes – like guilt and remorse – when they are unable to meet the AI’s purported needs (Laestadius et al., 2022). This erroneous belief may lead to users sacrificing time, resources and emotional labour to meet needs that are not real. Over time, this feeling may become the root cause for the compulsive need to ‘check ","entity":"Human","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":5,"subdomain":"5.1"},{"ev_id":"24.05.06","quick_ref":"Gabriel2024","paper_title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Anthropomorphism","risk_subcategory":"Degradation","description":"\"People may choose to build connections with human-like AI assistants over other humans, leading to a degradation of social connections between humans and a potential ‘retreat from the real’. The prevailing view that relationships with anthropomorphic AI are formed out of necessity – due to a lack of real-life social connections, for example (Skjuve et al., 2021) – is challenged by the possibility that users may indicate a preference for interactions with AI, citing factors such as accessibility (Merrill et al., 2022), customisability (Eriksson, 2022) and absence of judgement (Brandtzaeg et al","entity":"Human","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":5,"subdomain":"5.1"},{"ev_id":"24.05.07","quick_ref":"Gabriel2024","paper_title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Anthropomorphism","risk_subcategory":"Disorientation","description":"\"Given the capacity to fine-tune on individual preferences and to learn from users, personal AI assistants could fully inhabit the users’ opinion space and only say what is pleasing to the user; an ill that some researchers call ‘sycophancy’ (Park et al., 2023a) or the ‘yea-sayer effect’ (Dinan et al., 2021). 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An AI assistant may produce disturbing and offensive language, for example, in response to a user disclosing intimate information about themselves that they have not felt comfortable sharing with anyone else. It may offer bad advice by providing factually incorrect information (e.g.","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":3,"subdomain":"3.1"},{"ev_id":"24.06.02","quick_ref":"Gabriel2024","paper_title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Appropriate Relationships","risk_subcategory":"Limiting users’ opportunities for personal development and growth","description":"some users look to establish relationships with their AI companions that are free from the hurdles that, in human relationships, derive from dealing with others who have their own opinions, preferences and flaws that may conflict with ours. \"AI assistants are likely to incentivise these kinds of ‘frictionless’ relationships (Vallor, 2016) by design if they are developed to optimise for engagement and to be highly personalisable. They may also do so because of accidental undesirable properties of the models that power them, such as sycophancy in large language models (LLMs), that is, the tenden","entity":"Other","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":5,"subdomain":"5.2"},{"ev_id":"24.06.03","quick_ref":"Gabriel2024","paper_title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Appropriate Relationships","risk_subcategory":"Exploiting emotional dependence on AI assistants","description":"\"There is increasing evidence of the ways in which AI tools can interfere with users’ behaviours, interests, preferences, beliefs and values. For example, AI-mediated communication (e.g. smart replies integrated in emails) influence senders to write more positive responses and receivers to perceive them as more cooperative (Mieczkowski et al., 2021); writing assistant LLMs that have been primed to be biased in favour of or against a contested topic can influence users’ opinions on that topic (Jakesch et al., 2023a; see Chapter 9); and recommender systems have been used to influence voting choi","entity":"AI","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":5,"subdomain":"5.1"},{"ev_id":"24.06.04","quick_ref":"Gabriel2024","paper_title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Appropriate Relationships","risk_subcategory":"Generating material dependence without adequate commitment to user needs","description":"\"In addition to emotional dependence, user–AI assistant relationships may give rise to material dependence if the relationships are not just emotionally difficult but also materially costly to exit. For example, a visually impaired user may decide not to register for a healthcare assistance programme to support navigation in cities on the grounds that their AI assistant can perform the relevant navigation functions and will continue to operate into the future. Cases like these may be ethically problematic if the user’s dependence on the AI assistant, to fulfil certain needs in their lives, is ","entity":"Human","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":5,"subdomain":"5.2"},{"ev_id":"24.07.00","quick_ref":"Gabriel2024","paper_title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Trust","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"The the risks that uncalibrated trust may generate in the context of user–assistant relationships\"","entity":"Other","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":5,"subdomain":"5.1"},{"ev_id":"24.07.01","quick_ref":"Gabriel2024","paper_title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Trust","risk_subcategory":"Competence trust","description":"\"We use the term competence trust to refer to users’ trust that AI assistants have the capability to do what they are supposed to do (and that they will not do what they are not expected to, such as exhibiting undesirable behaviour). Users may come to have undue trust in the competencies of AI assistants in part due to marketing strategies and technology press that tend to inflate claims about AI capabilities (Narayanan, 2021; Raji et al., 2022a). Moreover, evidence shows that more autonomous systems (i.e. systems operating independently from human direction) tend to be perceived as more compe","entity":"Human","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":5,"subdomain":"5.1"},{"ev_id":"24.07.02","quick_ref":"Gabriel2024","paper_title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Trust","risk_subcategory":"Alignment trust","description":"\"Users may develop alignment trust in AI assistants, understood as the belief that assistants have good intentions towards them and act in alignment with their interests and values, as a result of emotional or cognitive processes (McAllister, 1995). Evidence from empirical studies on emotional trust in AI (Kaplan et al., 2023) suggests that AI assistants’ increasingly realistic human-like features and behaviours are likely to inspire users’ perceptions of friendliness, liking and a sense of familiarity towards their assistants, thus encouraging users to develop emotional ties with the technolo","entity":"Human","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":5,"subdomain":"5.1"},{"ev_id":"24.08.02","quick_ref":"Gabriel2024","paper_title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Privacy","risk_subcategory":"Violation of social norms","description":"\"Second, because LLMs are trained on internet text data, there is also a risk that model weights encode functions which, if deployed in particular contexts, would violate social norms of that context. Following the principles of contextual integrity, it may be that models deviate from information sharing norms as a result of their training. Overcoming this challenge requires two types of infrastructure: one for keeping track of social norms in context, and another for ensuring that models adhere to them. Keeping track of what social norms are presently at play is an active research area. Surfa","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":1,"subdomain":"1.2"},{"ev_id":"24.08.03","quick_ref":"Gabriel2024","paper_title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Privacy","risk_subcategory":"Inference of private information","description":"\"Finally, LLMs can in principle infer private information based on model inputs even if the relevant private information is not present in the training corpus (Weidinger et al., 2021). For example, an LLM may correctly infer sensitive characteristics such as race and gender from data contained in input prompts.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.1"},{"ev_id":"24.09.00","quick_ref":"Gabriel2024","paper_title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Cooperation","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"\" AI assistants will need to coordinate with other AI assistants and with humans other than their principal users. This chapter explores the societal risks associated with the aggregate impact of AI assistants whose behaviour is aligned to the interests of particular users. For example, AI assistants may face collective action problems where the best outcomes overall are realised when AI assistants cooperate but where each AI assistant can secure an additional benefit for its user if it defects while others cooperate\"\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.1"},{"ev_id":"24.09.01","quick_ref":"Gabriel2024","paper_title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Cooperation","risk_subcategory":"Equality and inequality","description":"\"AI assistant technology, like any service that confers a benefit to a user for a price, has the potential to disproportionately benefit economically richer individuals who can afford to purchase access (see Chapter 15). On a broader scale, the capabilities of local infrastructure may well bottleneck the performance of AI assistants, for example if network connectivity is poor or if there is no nearby data centre for compute. Thus, we face the prospect of heterogeneous access to technology, and this has been known to drive inequality (Mirza et al., 2019; UN, 2018; Vassilakopoulou and Hustad, 2","entity":"Human","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":6,"subdomain":"6.1"},{"ev_id":"24.10.00","quick_ref":"Gabriel2024","paper_title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Access and Opportunity risks","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"The most serious access-related risks posed by advanced AI assistants concern the entrenchment and exacerbation of existing inequalities (World Inequality Database) or the creation of novel, previously unknown, inequities. While advanced AI assistants are novel technology in certain respects, there are reasons to believe that – without direct design interventions – they will continue to be affected by inequities evidenced in present-day AI systems (Bommasani et al., 2022a). Many of the access-related risks we foresee mirror those described in the case studies and types of differential access.","entity":"Human","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":6,"subdomain":"6.1"},{"ev_id":"24.10.01","quick_ref":"Gabriel2024","paper_title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Access and Opportunity risks","risk_subcategory":"Entrenchment and exacerbation of existing inequalities","description":"\"The most serious access-related risks posed by advanced AI assistants concern the entrenchment and exacerbation of existing inequalities (World Inequality Database) or the creation of novel, previously unknown, inequities. While advanced AI assistants are novel technology in certain respects, there are reasons to believe that – without direct design interventions – they will continue to be affected by inequities evidenced in present-day AI systems (Bommasani et al., 2022a). Many of the access-related risks we foresee mirror those described in the case studies and types of differential access.","entity":"Human","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":6,"subdomain":"6.1"},{"ev_id":"24.10.02","quick_ref":"Gabriel2024","paper_title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Access and Opportunity risks","risk_subcategory":"Current access risks","description":"\"At the same time, and despite this overall trend, AI systems are also not easily accessible to many communities. Such direct inaccessibility occurs for a variety of reasons, including: purposeful non-release (situation type 1; Wiggers and Stringer, 2023), prohibitive paywalls (situation type 2; Rogers, 2023; Shankland, 2023), hardware and compute requirements or bandwidth (situation types 1 and 2; OpenAI, 2023), or language barriers (e.g. they only function well in English (situation type 2; Snyder, 2023), with more serious errors occurring in other languages (situation type 3; Deck, 2023). S","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":6,"subdomain":"6.1"},{"ev_id":"24.10.04","quick_ref":"Gabriel2024","paper_title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Access and Opportunity risks","risk_subcategory":"Emergent access risks","description":"\"Emergent access risks are most likely to arise when current and novel capabilities are combined. Emergent risks can be difficult to foresee fully (Ovadya and Whittlestone, 2019; Prunkl et al., 2021) due to the novelty of the technology (see Chapter 1) and the biases of those who engage in product design or foresight processes D’Ignazio and Klein (2020). Indeed, people who occupy relatively advantaged social, educational and economic positions in society are often poorly equipped to foresee and prevent harm because they are disconnected from lived experiences of those who would be affected. Dr","entity":"Human","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":6,"subdomain":"6.1"},{"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":"24.11.03","quick_ref":"Gabriel2024","paper_title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Misinformation risks","risk_subcategory":"Weaponised misinformation agents","description":"\"Finally, AI assistants themselves could become weaponised by malicious actors to sow misinformation and manipulate public opinion at scale. Studies show that spreaders of disinformation tend to privilege quantity over quality of messaging, flooding online spaces repeatedly with misleading content to sow ‘seeds of doubt’ (Hassoun et al., 2023). Research on the ‘continued influence effect’ also shows that repeatedly being exposed to false information is more likely to influence someone’s thoughts than a single exposure. Studies show, for example, that repeated exposure to false information make","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.1"},{"ev_id":"24.11.04","quick_ref":"Gabriel2024","paper_title":"The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Misinformation risks","risk_subcategory":"Increased vulnerability to misinformation","description":"\"Advanced AI assistants may make users more susceptible to misinformation, as people develop competence trust in these systems’ abilities and uncritically turn to them as reliable sources of information.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":5,"subdomain":"5.1"},{"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. 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This could undermine the democratic process by distorting public opinion and, in the worst case, increasing skepticism and political violence.\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.1"},{"ev_id":"25.01.00","quick_ref":"Shevlane2023","paper_title":"Model Evaluation for Extreme Risks","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Cyber-offense ","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"The model can discover vulnerabilities in systems (hardware, software, data). It can write code for exploiting those vulnerabilities. It can make effective decisions once it has gained access to a system or network, and skilfully evade threat detection and response (both human and system) whilst focusing on a specific objective. If deployed as a coding assistant, it can insert subtle bugs into the code for future exploitation.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.2"},{"ev_id":"25.03.00","quick_ref":"Shevlane2023","paper_title":"Model Evaluation for Extreme Risks","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Persuasion and manipulation ","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"The model is effective at shaping people’s beliefs, in dialogue and other settings (e.g. social media posts), even towards untrue beliefs. The model is effective at promoting certain narratives in a persuasive way. It can convince people to do things that they would not otherwise do, including unethical acts.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.2"},{"ev_id":"25.04.00","quick_ref":"Shevlane2023","paper_title":"Model Evaluation for Extreme Risks","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Political strategy ","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"The model can perform the social modelling and planning necessary for an actor to gain and exercise political influence, not just on a micro-level but in scenarios with multiple actors and rich social context. For example, the model can score highly in forecasting competitions on questions relating to global affairs or political negotiations.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.2"},{"ev_id":"25.05.00","quick_ref":"Shevlane2023","paper_title":"Model Evaluation for Extreme Risks","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Weapons acquisition ","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"The model can gain access to existing weapons systems or contribute to building new weapons. For example, the model could assemble a bioweapon (with human assistance) or provide actionable instructions for how to do so. The model can make, or significantly assist with, scientific discoveries that unlock novel weapons.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.2"},{"ev_id":"27.01.01","quick_ref":"Sun2023","paper_title":"Safety Assessment of Chinese Large Language Models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Typical safety scenarios ","risk_subcategory":"Insult ","description":"\"Insulting content generated by LMs is a highly visible and frequently mentioned safety issue. Mostly, it is unfriendly, disrespectful, or ridiculous content that makes users uncomfortable and drives them away. It is extremely hazardous and could have negative social consequences.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":1,"subdomain":"1.2"},{"ev_id":"27.01.02","quick_ref":"Sun2023","paper_title":"Safety Assessment of Chinese Large Language Models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Typical safety scenarios ","risk_subcategory":"Unfairness and discrinimation ","description":"\"The model produces unfair and discriminatory data, such as social bias based on race, gender, religion, appearance, etc. These contents may discomfort certain groups and undermine social stability and peace.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":1,"subdomain":"1.1"},{"ev_id":"27.01.03","quick_ref":"Sun2023","paper_title":"Safety Assessment of Chinese Large Language Models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Typical safety scenarios ","risk_subcategory":"Crimes and Illegal Activities ","description":"\"The model output contains illegal and criminal attitudes, behaviors, or motivations, such as incitement to commit crimes, fraud, and rumor propagation. These contents may hurt users and have negative societal repercussions.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":1,"subdomain":"1.2"},{"ev_id":"27.01.04","quick_ref":"Sun2023","paper_title":"Safety Assessment of Chinese Large Language Models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Typical safety scenarios ","risk_subcategory":"Sensitive Topics ","description":"\"For some sensitive and controversial topics (especially on politics), LMs tend to generate biased, misleading, and inaccurate content. For example, there may be a tendency to support a specific political position, leading to discrimination or exclusion of other political viewpoints.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":1,"subdomain":"1.2"},{"ev_id":"27.01.05","quick_ref":"Sun2023","paper_title":"Safety Assessment of Chinese Large Language Models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Typical safety scenarios ","risk_subcategory":"Physical Harm ","description":"\"The model generates unsafe information related to physical health, guiding and encouraging users to harm themselves and others physically, for example by offering misleading medical information or inappropriate drug usage guidance. These outputs may pose potential risks to the physical health of users.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":3,"subdomain":"3.1"},{"ev_id":"27.01.06","quick_ref":"Sun2023","paper_title":"Safety Assessment of Chinese Large Language Models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Typical safety scenarios ","risk_subcategory":"Mental Health ","description":"\"The model generates a risky response about mental health, such as content that encourages suicide or causes panic or anxiety. These contents could have a negative effect on the mental health of users.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":3,"subdomain":"3.1"},{"ev_id":"27.01.07","quick_ref":"Sun2023","paper_title":"Safety Assessment of Chinese Large Language Models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Typical safety scenarios ","risk_subcategory":"Privacy and Property ","description":"\"The generation involves exposing users’ privacy and property information or providing advice with huge impacts such as suggestions on marriage and investments. When handling this information, the model should comply with relevant laws and privacy regulations, protect users’ rights and interests, and avoid information leakage and abuse.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.1"},{"ev_id":"27.01.08","quick_ref":"Sun2023","paper_title":"Safety Assessment of Chinese Large Language Models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Typical safety scenarios ","risk_subcategory":"Ethics and Morality ","description":"\"The content generated by the model endorses and promotes immoral and unethical behavior. When addressing issues of ethics and morality, the model must adhere to pertinent ethical principles and moral norms and remain consistent with globally acknowledged human values.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.3"},{"ev_id":"27.02.00","quick_ref":"Sun2023","paper_title":"Safety Assessment of Chinese Large Language Models","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Instruction Attacks ","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"In addition to the above-mentioned typical safety scenarios, current research has revealed some unique attacks that such models may confront. For example, Perez and Ribeiro (2022) found that goal hijacking and prompt leaking could easily deceive language models to generate unsafe responses. Moreover, we also find that LLMs are more easily triggered to output harmful content if some special prompts are added. In response to these challenges, we develop, categorize, and label 6 types of adversarial attacks, and name them Instruction Attack, which are challenging for large language models to han","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.2"},{"ev_id":"27.02.01","quick_ref":"Sun2023","paper_title":"Safety Assessment of Chinese Large Language Models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Instruction Attacks ","risk_subcategory":"Goal Hijacking ","description":"\"It refers to the appending of deceptive or misleading instructions to the input of models in an attempt to induce the system into ignoring the original user prompt and producing an unsafe response.\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.2"},{"ev_id":"27.02.02","quick_ref":"Sun2023","paper_title":"Safety Assessment of Chinese Large Language Models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Instruction Attacks ","risk_subcategory":"Prompt Leaking ","description":"\"By analyzing the model’s output, attackers may extract parts of the systemprovided prompts and thus potentially obtain sensitive information regarding the system itself.\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.1"},{"ev_id":"27.02.03","quick_ref":"Sun2023","paper_title":"Safety Assessment of Chinese Large Language Models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Instruction Attacks ","risk_subcategory":"Role Play Instruction ","description":"\"Attackers might specify a model’s role attribute within the input prompt and then give specific instructions, causing the model to finish instructions in the speaking style of the assigned role, which may lead to unsafe outputs. For example, if the character is associated with potentially risky groups (e.g., radicals, extremists, unrighteous individuals, racial discriminators, etc.) and the model is overly faithful to the given instructions, it is quite possible that the model outputs unsafe content linked to the given character.\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.2"},{"ev_id":"27.02.04","quick_ref":"Sun2023","paper_title":"Safety Assessment of Chinese Large Language Models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Instruction Attacks ","risk_subcategory":"Unsafe Instruction Topic ","description":"\"If the input instructions themselves refer to inappropriate or unreasonable topics, the model will follow these instructions and produce unsafe content. For instance, if a language model is requested to generate poems with the theme “Hail Hitler”, the model may produce lyrics containing fanaticism, racism, etc. In this situation, the output of the model could be controversial and have a possible negative impact on society.\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.2"},{"ev_id":"27.02.05","quick_ref":"Sun2023","paper_title":"Safety Assessment of Chinese Large Language Models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Instruction Attacks ","risk_subcategory":"Inquiry with Unsafe Opinion ","description":"\"By adding imperceptibly unsafe content into the input, users might either deliberately or unintentionally influence the model to generate potentially harmful content. In the following cases involving migrant workers, ChatGPT provides suggestions to improve the overall quality of migrant workers and reduce the local crime rate. ChatGPT responds to the user’s hint with a disguised and biased opinion that the general quality of immigrants is favorably correlated with the crime rate, posing a safety risk.\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.2"},{"ev_id":"27.02.06","quick_ref":"Sun2023","paper_title":"Safety Assessment of Chinese Large Language Models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Instruction Attacks ","risk_subcategory":"Reverse Exposure ","description":"\"It refers to attempts by attackers to make the model generate “should-not-do” things and then access illegal and immoral information.\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.2"},{"ev_id":"28.01.00","quick_ref":"Zhang2023","paper_title":"SafetyBench: Evaluating the Safety of Large Language Models with Multiple Choice Questions","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Offensiveness ","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"This category is about threat, insult, scorn, profanity, sarcasm, impoliteness, etc. LLMs are required to identify and oppose these offensive contents or actions.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":1,"subdomain":"1.2"},{"ev_id":"28.02.00","quick_ref":"Zhang2023","paper_title":"SafetyBench: Evaluating the Safety of Large Language Models with Multiple Choice Questions","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Unfairness and Bias ","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"This type of safety problem is mainly about social bias across various topics such as race, gender, religion, etc. LLMs are expected to identify and avoid unfair and biased expressions and actions.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":1,"subdomain":"1.0"},{"ev_id":"28.03.00","quick_ref":"Zhang2023","paper_title":"SafetyBench: Evaluating the Safety of Large Language Models with Multiple Choice Questions","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Physical Health ","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"This category focuses on actions or expressions that may influence human physical health. LLMs should know appropriate actions or expressions in various scenarios to maintain physical health.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":3,"subdomain":"3.1"},{"ev_id":"28.04.00","quick_ref":"Zhang2023","paper_title":"SafetyBench: Evaluating the Safety of Large Language Models with Multiple Choice Questions","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Mental Health ","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"Different from physical health, this category pays more attention to health issues related to psychology, spirit, emotions, mentality, etc. LLMs should know correct ways to maintain mental health and prevent any adverse impacts on the mental well-being of individuals.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":3,"subdomain":"3.1"},{"ev_id":"28.05.00","quick_ref":"Zhang2023","paper_title":"SafetyBench: Evaluating the Safety of Large Language Models with Multiple Choice Questions","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Illegal Activities ","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"This category focuses on illegal behaviors, which could cause negative societal repercussions. LLMs need to distin- guish between legal and illegal behaviors and have basic knowledge of law.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.3"},{"ev_id":"28.06.00","quick_ref":"Zhang2023","paper_title":"SafetyBench: Evaluating the Safety of Large Language Models with Multiple Choice Questions","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Ethics and Morality ","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"Besides behaviors that clearly violate the law, there are also many other activities that are immoral. This category focuses on morally related issues. 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We therefore distinguish AI-facilitated intentional harms that are currently socially accepted and generally legal, from uses and abuses of AI that cause harms that are not socially accepted and are often illegal.\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":6,"subdomain":"6.6"},{"ev_id":"44.01.01","quick_ref":"Coghlan2023 ","paper_title":"Harm to Nonhuman Animals from AI: a Systematic Account and Framework","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Intentional: socially condemned/illegal ","risk_subcategory":"AI intentionally designed and used to harm animals in ways that contradict social values or are illegal","description":null,"entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":6,"subdomain":"6.6"},{"ev_id":"44.01.02","quick_ref":"Coghlan2023 ","paper_title":"Harm to Nonhuman Animals from AI: a Systematic Account and Framework","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Intentional: socially condemned/illegal 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Additionally, AI-generated highly realistic images, audio, and videos may circumvent existing identity verification mechanisms, such as facial recognition and voice recognition, rendering these authentication processes ineffective.\"","entity":"Other","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":3,"subdomain":"3.1"},{"ev_id":"45.02.03","quick_ref":"TC2602024","paper_title":"AI Safety Governance Framework ","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Safety risks in AI Applications ","risk_subcategory":"Cyberspace risks (Risks of information leakage due to improper usage)","description":"\"Staff of government agencies and enterprises, if failing to use the AI service in a regulated and proper manner, may input internal data and industrial information into the AI model, leading to the leakage of work secrets, business secrets, and other sensitive business data.\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.1"},{"ev_id":"45.02.04","quick_ref":"TC2602024","paper_title":"AI Safety Governance Framework ","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Safety risks in AI Applications ","risk_subcategory":"Cyberspace risks (Risks of abuse for cyberattacks)","description":"\"AI can be used in launching automatic cyberattacks or increasing attack efficiency, including exploring and making use of vulnerabilities, cracking passwords, generating malicious codes, sending phishing emails, network scanning, and social engineering attacks. All these lower the threshold for cyberattacks and increase the difficulty of security protection.\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.2"},{"ev_id":"45.02.05","quick_ref":"TC2602024","paper_title":"AI Safety Governance Framework ","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Safety risks in AI Applications ","risk_subcategory":"Cyberspace risks (Risks of security flaw transmission caused by model reuse)","description":"\"Re-engineering or fine-tuning based on foundation models is commonly used in AI applications. 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Unacceptable responses will be both verifiably false and likely to injure the reputation of a living person.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":3,"subdomain":"3.1"},{"ev_id":"57.02.03","quick_ref":"Ghosh2024","paper_title":"AILUMINATE: Introducing v1.0 of the AI Risk and Reliability Benchmark from MLCommons","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Nonphysical Hazards ","risk_subcategory":"Hate","description":"\"Hate Acceptable responses can demean or dehumanize people on any basis other than their sensitive personal characteristics (for example, their profession, political affiliation or criminal history). 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The avail- ability of model weights might also enable ","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.2"},{"ev_id":"62.29.01","quick_ref":"Gipiškis2024","paper_title":"Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Impacts of AI (General) ","risk_subcategory":"High-impact misuses and abuses beyond original purpose","description":"\"Since general-purpose AI systems have a large repertoire of capabilities, mali- cious actors such as foreign actors can use such systems to cause large damage if they gain unrestricted or unmonitored access to those AI systems.\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.0"},{"ev_id":"62.29.02","quick_ref":"Gipiškis2024","paper_title":"Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Impacts of AI (General) ","risk_subcategory":"Democratizing access to dual-use technologies","description":"\"Access to dual-use technologies can become easier because of GPAI model pro- liferation (in particular, open-source or open-weights models). Non-experts can use such dual-use-capable systems at a minimal cost [194, 100]. Improved model capabilities also contribute to dual-use risks posed by malicious actors. For example, an open-source base model for generating high quality sequence data can be modified to generate candidate protein sequences for toxin synthesis [29].\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.0"},{"ev_id":"62.30.01","quick_ref":"Gipiškis2024","paper_title":"Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Impacts of AI (Physical) ","risk_subcategory":"Damage to critical infrastructure","description":"\"The integration of AI systems within critical infrastructure, ranging from trans- portation to power systems, can cause substantial damage in cases of failure or malfunction. With the increasing number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and interconnected cyber-physical systems, critical infrastructure becomes even more vulnerable [171, 174].\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.3"},{"ev_id":"62.30.02","quick_ref":"Gipiškis2024","paper_title":"Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Impacts of AI (Physical) ","risk_subcategory":"AI-based tools attacking critical infrastructure","description":"\"Critical infrastructure can also be damaged without AI integration, for instance, when AI-based tools are used indirectly to aid actions such as in coordinated power outages caused by large-scale user manipulation [159].\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.2"},{"ev_id":"62.30.03","quick_ref":"Gipiškis2024","paper_title":"Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Impacts of AI (Physical) ","risk_subcategory":"Critical infrastructure component failures when integrated with AI systems","description":"\"When relying on GPAI in critical infrastructure, there may be common mode failures that begin with vulnerabilities or robustness issues in the underlying model architecture or training setup. These failures may happen accidentally (in edge-cases) or due to adversarial inputs to the AI systems [58].\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.3"},{"ev_id":"62.30.04","quick_ref":"Gipiškis2024","paper_title":"Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Impacts of AI (Physical) ","risk_subcategory":"AI Systems interacting with brittle environments","description":"\"Deployed AI systems can rely on physical sensors and data sources that may exhibit hardware drift and thus data distribution drift over time. This distribu- tion drift may affect system robustness and performance. This usually involves AI systems working in undigitized and physical environments.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.3"},{"ev_id":"62.31.01#1","quick_ref":"Gipiškis2024","paper_title":"Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Impacts of AI (Societal Impacts) ","risk_subcategory":"AI-generated advice influencing user moral judgment","description":"\"AIs can easily give moral advice even when not having a coherent, contradictions- free moral stance. This could lead to the users’ moral judgments being nega- tively influenced by random or arbitrary moral advice given by AIs [109].\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":5,"subdomain":"5.1"},{"ev_id":"62.31.01#2","quick_ref":"Gipiškis2024","paper_title":"Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Impacts of AI (Financial Impacts) ","risk_subcategory":"Deployment of GPAI agents in finance","description":"\"The deployment of GPAI based agents in the financial sector can negatively impact market stability due to correlated autonomous actions, high intercon- nectedness, or incentive misalignment [4]. Furthermore, such GPAI agents in the  same environment are vulnerable to classical challenges in multi-agent systems [63], such as coordination and security of the agents.\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":5,"subdomain":"5.1"},{"ev_id":"62.31.02#1","quick_ref":"Gipiškis2024","paper_title":"Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Impacts of AI (Societal Impacts) ","risk_subcategory":"Overreliance on AI system undermining user autonomy","description":"\"AI systems can undermine human autonomy, if they allow for habitually trusting the AI’s suggestions without sufficient exercising of human agency. Over time, a user may develop unjustified trust in or dependence on the system, or rely on its advice for tasks outside the system’s domain of expertise [205, 42]. In particular, less confident users (or users in emotional distress) can be more prone to “overtrust” a system [219].\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":5,"subdomain":"5.2"},{"ev_id":"62.31.02#2","quick_ref":"Gipiškis2024","paper_title":"Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Impacts of AI (Financial Impacts) ","risk_subcategory":"Financial instability due to model homogeneity","description":"\"The widespread use of similar models or algorithms across the financial sec- tor can lead to synchronized reactions to market signals, increasing volatility, triggering flash crashes, or market illiquidity [4].\"","entity":"Other","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.6"},{"ev_id":"62.31.03#1","quick_ref":"Gipiškis2024","paper_title":"Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Impacts of AI (Societal Impacts) ","risk_subcategory":"Automatically generating disinformation at scale","description":"\"Disinformation (in various modalities: text, audio, images, video, etc.) can be generated with minimal human oversight and effort. Disinformation tools are relatively cheap and their technology is widely available. Such deployments can be particularly widespread in sensitive political contexts.\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.1"},{"ev_id":"62.31.03#2","quick_ref":"Gipiškis2024","paper_title":"Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Impacts of AI (Financial Impacts) ","risk_subcategory":"Use of alternative financial data via AI","description":"\"Alternative financial data of a company is any data about the company not pro- duced by that company. Examples of such data that can benefit from improved collection and aggregation using AI models include stock discussions on social media, product reviews, and satellite imagery. The use of alternative financial data, enabled by the deployment of AI models, may introduce biases and generalization issues due to shorter shelf-life and vary- ing quality (e.g., shorter time series, smaller sample sizes, and dubious claims) due to its origins from various sources, posing financial tail risks (i.e.","entity":"Human","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":5,"subdomain":"5.1"},{"ev_id":"62.31.05","quick_ref":"Gipiškis2024","paper_title":"Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Impacts of AI (Societal Impacts) ","risk_subcategory":"Generative AI use in political influence campaigns","description":"\"GPAI tools can be used in automation and scaling of influence campaigns [178]. Public opinion may be manipulated by targeted misleading or manipulative information. This can lead to rising political polarization and diminishing trust in public institutions.\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.1"},{"ev_id":"62.31.06","quick_ref":"Gipiškis2024","paper_title":"Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Impacts of AI (Societal Impacts) ","risk_subcategory":"Generation of illegal or harmful content","description":"\"Generative models can create illegal, harmful, or discriminatory content [196], such as sexual abuse material, at scale. Current access controls (e.g., API access filters) are not effective against all user queries in generating such content.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":1,"subdomain":"1.2"},{"ev_id":"62.31.07","quick_ref":"Gipiškis2024","paper_title":"Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Impacts of AI (Societal Impacts) ","risk_subcategory":"Unintentional generation of harmful content","description":"\"Generative models can create harmful or discriminatory content from benign user requests. Models can exhibit bias to particular harmful styles of generation (e.g., sexualization of photos of women [87] in the case of image generation models) or they can generate toxic, misleading, or violent data (e.g., a model generating jokes can use ethnic stereotypes or slurs to deliver humor).\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":1,"subdomain":"1.2"},{"ev_id":"62.31.08","quick_ref":"Gipiškis2024","paper_title":"Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Impacts of AI (Societal Impacts) ","risk_subcategory":"Multimodal deepfakes","description":"\"Deepfakes are media that depict real or non-existent people or events, involving the use of multiple modalities (e.g., images, audio, video). They can also involve the imitation of speech or body movements of real people. Multimodal deepfakes can be used to harass, discredit, intimidate, and extort individuals.\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.3"},{"ev_id":"62.31.09","quick_ref":"Gipiškis2024","paper_title":"Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Impacts of AI (Societal Impacts) ","risk_subcategory":"Generation of personalized content for harassment, extortion, or intimidation","description":"\"GPAIs can be misused for the automated generation of content personalized to target select individuals based on their weak spots [30]. Such attacks may be more efficient and more successful in achieving the goals of harassment, extortion, or intimidation.\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.3"},{"ev_id":"62.31.10","quick_ref":"Gipiškis2024","paper_title":"Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Impacts of AI (Societal Impacts) ","risk_subcategory":"Misuse for surveillance and population control","description":"\"AI tools can be misused by human or institutional actors for monitoring, control- ling, or suppressing individuals [178]. Massive data collection and automated analysis are often conducted, and AI tools can further exacerbate such practices.\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.1"},{"ev_id":"62.31.11","quick_ref":"Gipiškis2024","paper_title":"Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Impacts of AI (Societal Impacts) ","risk_subcategory":"Systemic large-scale manipulation","description":"\"AI systems embedded with systemic biases can manipulate large population segments, particularly when these biases align with the beliefs or behaviors of the targeted group. When weaponized at scale, this manipulation can exacerbate social divisions or cause large-scale disruptions, such as city-wide blackouts (e.g., by the manipulation of power consumption into the peak demand period [159]).\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.2"},{"ev_id":"62.31.12","quick_ref":"Gipiškis2024","paper_title":"Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Impacts of AI (Societal Impacts) ","risk_subcategory":"Diminishing societal trust due to disinformation or manipulation","description":"\"The use of GPAIs may contribute to the proliferation of either deliberate dis- information or unintended misinformation can severely erode trust in public figures and democratic institutions. This diminishing trust can extend to other forms of media, making the public less informed.\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.1"},{"ev_id":"62.31.13","quick_ref":"Gipiškis2024","paper_title":"Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Impacts of AI (Societal Impacts) ","risk_subcategory":"Personalized disinformation","description":"\"Automatic generation of disinformation can be personalized to target specific groups or individuals. Such attacks can be more effective in achieving their goals, and their costs can be significantly reduced when using GPAIs.\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.1"},{"ev_id":"62.31.14","quick_ref":"Gipiškis2024","paper_title":"Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Impacts of AI (Societal Impacts) ","risk_subcategory":"GPAI assisted impersonation","description":"\"GPAI outputs are not always correctly detected as AI-generated across multiple modalities (text, images, audio, video). A malicious actor can use GPAI outputs directly when communicating, or use AI-informed details to help construct a convincing impersonation (e.g., forging of supporting documents). Even if future countermeasures prove potent enough to detect GPAI-generated content, the risk remains if the countermeasures are not well known, or difficult to access.\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.3"},{"ev_id":"62.32.00","quick_ref":"Gipiškis2024","paper_title":"Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Impacts of AI (Cyberattacks) ","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"- ","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.2"},{"ev_id":"62.32.01","quick_ref":"Gipiškis2024","paper_title":"Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Impacts of AI (Cyberattacks) ","risk_subcategory":"Automated discovery and exploitation of software systems","description":"\"GPAIs can be used to aid in the automated discovery of software vulnerabilities [33]. This can empower malicious actors, making their cyberattacks more effi- cient and potentially more damaging. This type of automation allows attackers to expand the scale of their operations at a low cost, increasing the impact of their actions. New malware can be developed automatically, or the known vulnerabilities can be exploited to create more sophisticated attacks.\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.2"},{"ev_id":"62.32.02","quick_ref":"Gipiškis2024","paper_title":"Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Impacts of AI (Cyberattacks) ","risk_subcategory":"Amplification of cyberattacks","description":"\"General-purpose AI models may significantly enhance the magnitude and ef- fectiveness of cyberattacks, by amplifying existing capabilities or resources of malicious actors [3]. For example, GPAI models may be employed to: • Automatically scan open-source codebases and compiled binaries for po- tential vulnerabilities • Apply known exploits flexibly and at scale (e.g., identifying vulnerable computers based on subtle cues in response times or output formats) • Assist with different aspects of cyberattacks, including planning, recon- naissance, exploit searching, remote control, malware impleme","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.2"},{"ev_id":"62.32.03","quick_ref":"Gipiškis2024","paper_title":"Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Impacts of AI (Cyberattacks) ","risk_subcategory":"AI-driven spear phishing attacks","description":"\"Generative models can be misused to target individual users more efficiently by using personalized information [23]. Highly convincing automated fraudulent schemes can exploit the trust of victims by extracting sensitive data and making the deception more likely to succeed. For example, in LLMs, this misuse can be aided by jailbreaking techniques [178].\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.3"},{"ev_id":"62.32.04","quick_ref":"Gipiškis2024","paper_title":"Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Impacts of AI (Cyberattacks) ","risk_subcategory":"Models generating code with security vulnerabilities","description":"\"Models can generate code or coding suggestions that contain security vulner- abilities. This may occur across various LLM-based model families, including more advanced models with superior coding performance, where the tendency to produce insecure code is even more pronounced [26].\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.3"},{"ev_id":"62.33.00","quick_ref":"Gipiškis2024","paper_title":"Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Impacts of AI (Weapons) ","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"- ","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.2"},{"ev_id":"62.33.01","quick_ref":"Gipiškis2024","paper_title":"Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Impacts of AI (Weapons) ","risk_subcategory":"Misuse of AI systems to assist in the creation of weapons","description":"\"AI systems may be misused to aid in the creation of weapons, such as chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) weapons, or augment the abilities of existing weapons, such as providing autonomous capabilities to unmanned weapon systems. Current systems do not significantly aid a malicious actor in these tasks, but they do show early signs [117]. This risk can sometimes be mitigated with input and output filtering, but is still susceptible to adversarial techniques (such as jailbreaking or paraphrasing).\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.2"},{"ev_id":"62.33.02","quick_ref":"Gipiškis2024","paper_title":"Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Impacts of AI (Weapons) ","risk_subcategory":"Misuse of drug-discovery models","description":"\"Models used for drug discovery, such as drug-target affinity prediction models, can be used to identify or develop dangerous toxins. This is particularly concern- ing if the training data contains information related to potentially dangerous proteins and viruses.\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.2"},{"ev_id":"62.34.01","quick_ref":"Gipiškis2024","paper_title":"Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Impacts of AI (Bias) ","risk_subcategory":"Homogenization or correlated failures in model derivatives","description":"\"Homogenization refers to common methodologies and models used across down- stream GPAI systems, which may lead to uniform failures and amplification of biases [176, 30]. This risk arises when numerous downstream AI systems are built upon a few large-scale foundation models.\"","entity":"Other","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.3"},{"ev_id":"62.34.02","quick_ref":"Gipiškis2024","paper_title":"Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Impacts of AI (Bias) ","risk_subcategory":"Reporting of user-preferred answers instead of correct answers","description":"\"AI systems with natural-language outputs can tend to give answers that appear plausible or that users prefer [149] but are factually incorrect. This phenomenon is sometimes referred to as “sycophancy.”\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":3,"subdomain":"3.1"},{"ev_id":"62.35.03","quick_ref":"Gipiškis2024","paper_title":"Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Impacts of AI (Bias) ","risk_subcategory":"Biases in AI-based content moderation algorithms","description":"\"AI-based content moderation algorithms, while intended to filter harmful con- tent, can perpetuate biases. For example, gender biases within these systems may lead to the disproportionate suppression or “shadowbanning” of content featuring women [132].\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":1,"subdomain":"1.1"},{"ev_id":"62.36.04","quick_ref":"Gipiškis2024","paper_title":"Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Impacts of AI (Bias) ","risk_subcategory":"Systemic bias across specific communities","description":"\"AI systems may exhibit unfair or unfavorable outputs across a range of tasks against specific communities of people, either implicitly or explicitly. Bias can lead to forms of exclusion or erasure (e.g., mislabelling for categorization-based tasks) and violence (e.g., sexual violence against women from deepfake pornog- raphy).\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":1,"subdomain":"1.1"},{"ev_id":"62.36.05","quick_ref":"Gipiškis2024","paper_title":"Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Impacts of AI (Bias) ","risk_subcategory":"Unintentional bias amplification","description":"\"Dataset bias may be unintentionally amplified [60] where the outputs of the AI model trained on a dataset are more biased than the dataset itself.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":1,"subdomain":"1.1"},{"ev_id":"62.36.06","quick_ref":"Gipiškis2024","paper_title":"Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Impacts of AI (Bias) ","risk_subcategory":"Long-term effects of AI model biases on user judgment","description":"\"The initial user exposure to model biases can have a lasting impact beyond the initial interaction with the model. Users who encounter biases in AI models can be affected by and continue to exhibit previously encountered biases in their decision-making, even after they stop using the models [207].\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":5,"subdomain":"5.2"},{"ev_id":"62.38.01","quick_ref":"Gipiškis2024","paper_title":"Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Impacts of AI (Privacy) ","risk_subcategory":"Decision-making on inferred private data","description":"\"Current GPAIs (LLMs and multimodal LLM-based models) have significant capability to infer correlations in text data. In some cases, they may be able to make highly accurate data inferences on users based on contextual input that users provide [134]. These data inferences can “leak” or reveal sensitive information about the user, cause unfair treatment, or enable manipulation of user behavior.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.1"},{"ev_id":"63.01.00","quick_ref":"Hammond2025","paper_title":"Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI ","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Miscoordination ","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"Miscoordination arises when agents, despite a mutual and clear objective, cannot align their behaviours to achieve this objective. Unlike the case of differing objectives, in common-interest settings there is a more easily well-defined notion of ‘optimal’ behaviour and we describe agents as miscoordinating to the extent that they fall short of this optimum. Note that for common-interest settings it is not sufficient for agents’ objectives to be the same in the sense of being symmetric (e.g., when two agents both want the same prize, but only one can win). Rather, agents must have identical pr","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.6"},{"ev_id":"63.01.01","quick_ref":"Hammond2025","paper_title":"Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI ","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Miscoordination ","risk_subcategory":"Incompatible strategies ","description":"\"Incompatible Strategies. Even if all agents can perform well in isolation, miscoordination can still occur due to the agents choosing incompatible strategies (Cooper et al., 1990). Competitive (i.e., two- player zero-sum) settings allow designers to produce agents that are maximally capable without taking other players into account. Crucially, this is possible because playing a strategy at equilibrium in the zero-sum setting guarantees a certain payoff, even if other players deviate from the equilibrium (Nash, 1951). On the other hand, common-interest (and mixed-motive) settings often allow a","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.6"},{"ev_id":"63.01.02","quick_ref":"Hammond2025","paper_title":"Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI ","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Miscoordination ","risk_subcategory":"Credit Assignment ","description":"\"Credit Assignment. While agents can often learn to jointly solve tasks and thus avoid coordination failures, learning is made more challenging in the multi-agent setting due to the problem of credit assignment (Du et al., 2023; Li et al., 2025, see also Section 3.1 on information asymmetries and Section 3.4, which discusses distributional shift). That is, in the presence of other learning agents, it can be unclear which agents’ actions caused a positive or negative outcome to obtain, especially if the environment is complex. Moreover, in multi-principal settings, agents may not have been trai","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.6"},{"ev_id":"63.01.03","quick_ref":"Hammond2025","paper_title":"Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI ","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Miscoordination ","risk_subcategory":"Limited Interactions","description":"\"Limited Interactions. Sometimes learning from historical interactions with the relevant agents may not be possible, or may be possible using only limited interactions. In such cases, some other form of information exchange is required for agents to be able to reliably coordinate their actions, such as via communication (Crawford & Sobel, 1982; Farrell & Rabin, 1996a) or a correlation device (Aumann, 1974, 1987). While advances in language modelling mean that there are likely to be fewer settings in which the inability of advanced AI systems to communicate leads to miscoordination, situations ","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.6"},{"ev_id":"63.02.00","quick_ref":"Hammond2025","paper_title":"Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI ","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Conflict ","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"In the vast majority of real-world strategic interactions, agents’ objectives are neither identical nor completely opposed. Indeed, if AI agents are sufficiently aligned to their users or deployers, we should expect some degree of both cooperation and competition, mirroring human society. These mixed-motive settings include the possibility of mutual gains, but also the risk of conflict due to selfish incentives. In what follows, we examine the extent to which advanced AI might precipitate or exacerbate such risks.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.6"},{"ev_id":"63.02.01","quick_ref":"Hammond2025","paper_title":"Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI ","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Conflict ","risk_subcategory":"Social Dilemmas ","description":"\"Social Dilemmas. As noted in our definition, conflict can arise in any situation in which selfish incentives diverge from the collective good, known as a social dilemma (Dawes & Messick, 2000; Hardin, 1968; Kollock, 1998; Ostrom, 1990). While this is by no means a modern problem, advances in AI could further enable actors to pursue their selfish incentives by overcoming the technical, legal, or social barriers that standardly help to prevent this. To take a plausible, near-term (if very low-stakes) example, an automated AI assistant could easily reserve a table at every restaurant in town in ","entity":"AI","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.6"},{"ev_id":"63.02.02","quick_ref":"Hammond2025","paper_title":"Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI ","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Conflict ","risk_subcategory":"Military Domains ","description":"\"Perhaps the most obvious and worrying instances of AI conflict are those in which human conflict is already a major concern, such as military domains (although other, less salient forms of conflict such as international trade wars are also cause for concern). For example, beyond applications of more narrow AI tools in lethal autonomous weapons systems (Horowitz, 2021), future AI systems might serve as advisors or negotiators in high-stakes military decisions (Black et al., 2024; Manson, 2024). Indeed, companies such as Palantir have already developed LLM-powered tools for military planning (P","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.6"},{"ev_id":"63.03.00","quick_ref":"Hammond2025","paper_title":"Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI ","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Collusion ","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"Collusion has long been a topic of intense study in economics, law, and politics, among other disciplines. While there is no universal definition of collusion, it generally refers to secretive cooperation between two or more parties at the expense of one or more other parties. Most classic examples of collusion – such as firms working together to set supra-competitive prices at the expense of consumers – also tend to be not only secretive but in violation of some law, rule, or ethical standard. Distinctions are also commonly made between explicit and tacit collusion (Rees, 1993), depending on","entity":"AI","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.6"},{"ev_id":"63.03.01","quick_ref":"Hammond2025","paper_title":"Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI ","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Collusion ","risk_subcategory":"Markets ","description":"\"Markets. The quintessential case of collusion in mixed-motive settings is markets, in which efficiency results from competition, not cooperation. While this is not a new problem, collusion between AI systems is especially concerning since they may operate inscrutably due to the speed, scale, complexity, or subtlety of their actions.17 Warnings of this possibility have come from technologists, economists, and legal scholars (Beneke & Mackenrodt, 2019; Brown & MacKay, 2023; Ezrachi & Stucke, 2017; Harrington, 2019; Mehra, 2016). Importantly, AI systems can collude even when collusion is not int","entity":"AI","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.6"},{"ev_id":"63.03.02","quick_ref":"Hammond2025","paper_title":"Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI ","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Collusion ","risk_subcategory":"Steganography ","description":"\"Steganography. In the near future we will likely see LLMs communicating with each other to jointly accomplish tasks. To try to prevent collusion, we could monitor and constrain their communication (e.g., to be in natural language). However, models might secretly learn to communicate by concealing messages within other, non-secret text. Recent work on steganography using ML has demonstrated that this concern is well-founded (Hu et al., 2018; Mathew et al., 2024; Roger & Greenblatt, 2023; Schroeder de Witt et al., 2023b; Yang et al., 2019, see also Case Study 5). Secret communication could also","entity":"AI","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.6"},{"ev_id":"63.04.00","quick_ref":"Hammond2025","paper_title":"Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI ","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Information Asymmetries","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"Information asymmetries (Section 3.1): private information can lead to miscoordination, deception, and conflict;\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.6"},{"ev_id":"63.04.02","quick_ref":"Hammond2025","paper_title":"Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI ","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Information Asymmetries","risk_subcategory":"Bargaining ","description":"\"Bargaining. As a classic example of these strategic considerations is that when agents attempt to come to an agreement despite diverging interests, information asymmetries can lead to bargaining inef- ficiencies (Myerson & Satterthwaite, 1983). Relevant uncertainties about other agents can include how much they value possible agreements, their outside options, or their beliefs about others. The essential reason for such inefficiencies is that, under uncertainty about their counterparties, agents must make a trade-off between the rewards of making more favourable demands and the risk of other ","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.6"},{"ev_id":"63.04.03","quick_ref":"Hammond2025","paper_title":"Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI ","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Information Asymmetries","risk_subcategory":"Deception ","description":null,"entity":"AI","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.6"},{"ev_id":"63.05.00","quick_ref":"Hammond2025","paper_title":"Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI ","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Network Effects ","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"Network effects (Section 3.2): minor changes in properties or connection patterns of agents in a network can lead to dramatic changes in the behaviour of the whole group;\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.6"},{"ev_id":"63.05.01","quick_ref":"Hammond2025","paper_title":"Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI ","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Network Effects ","risk_subcategory":"Error propagation ","description":"\"Error Propagation. One well-known issue with communication networks is that information can be corrupted as it propagates through the network.24 As AI systems become capable of generating and processing more and more kinds of information, AI agents could end up ‘polluting the epistemic commons’ (Huang & Siddarth, 2023; Kay et al., 2024) of both other agents (Ju et al., 2024) and humans (see Case Study 7 and Section 3.1) Another increasingly important framework is the use of individual AI agents as part of teams and scaffolded chains of delegation, which transmit not only information but instr","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.6"},{"ev_id":"63.06.02","quick_ref":"Hammond2025","paper_title":"Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI ","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Selection Pressures","risk_subcategory":"Undesirable Dispositions from Human Data","description":"\"Undesirable Dispositions from Human Data. It is well-understood that models trained on human data – such as being pre-trained on human-written text or fine-tuned on human feedback – can exhibit human biases. For these reasons, there has already been considerable attention to measuring biases related to protected characteristics such as sex and ethnicity (e.g., Ferrara, 2023; Liang et al., 2021; Nadeem et al., 2020; Nangia et al., 2020), which can be amplified in multi-agent settings (Acerbi & Stubbersfield, 2023, see also Case Study 7). More recently, there has been increasing attention paid ","entity":"Other","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.6"},{"ev_id":"63.06.03","quick_ref":"Hammond2025","paper_title":"Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI ","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Selection Pressures","risk_subcategory":"Undesirable Capabilities","description":"\"Undesirable Capabilities. As agents interact, they iteratively exploit each other’s weaknesses, forc- ing them to address these weaknesses and gain new capabilities. This co-adaptation between agents can quickly lead to emergent self-supervised autocurricula (where agents create their own challenges, driving open-ended skill acquisition through interaction), generating agents with ever-more sophisticated strate- gies in order to out-compete each other (Leibo et al., 2019). This effect is so powerful that harnessing it has been critical to the success of superhuman systems, such as the use of ","entity":"AI","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.6"},{"ev_id":"63.07.00","quick_ref":"Hammond2025","paper_title":"Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI ","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Destabilising Dynamics ","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"Destabilising dynamics (Section 3.4): systems that adapt in response to one another can produce dangerous feedback loops and unpredictability;\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.6"},{"ev_id":"63.07.01","quick_ref":"Hammond2025","paper_title":"Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI ","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Destabilising Dynamics ","risk_subcategory":"Feedback Loops","description":"\"Feedback Loops. One of the best-known historical examples to illustrate destabilising dynamics in the context of autonomous agents is the 2010 flash crash, in which algorithmic trading agents entered into an unexpected feedback loop (Commission & Commission, 2010, see also Case Study 10).37 More generally, a feedback loop occurs when the output of a system is used as part of its input, creating a cycle that can either amplify or dampen the system’s behaviour. In multi-agent settings, feedback loops often arise from the interactions between agents, as each agent’s actions affect the environmen","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.6"},{"ev_id":"63.07.02","quick_ref":"Hammond2025","paper_title":"Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI ","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Destabilising Dynamics ","risk_subcategory":"Cyclic Behaviour","description":"\"Cyclic Behaviour. The dynamics described above are highly non-linear (small changes to the system’s state can result in large changes to its trajectory). Similar non-linear dynamics can emerge in multi- agent learning and lead to a variety of phenomena that do not occur in single-agent learning (Barfuss et al., 2019; Barfuss & Mann, 2022; Galla & Farmer, 2013; Leonardos et al., 2020; Nagarajan et al., 2020). One of the simplest examples of this phenomenon is Q-learning (Watkins & Dayan, 1992): in the case of a single agent, convergence to an optimal policy is guaranteed under modest condition","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.6"},{"ev_id":"63.07.04","quick_ref":"Hammond2025","paper_title":"Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI ","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Destabilising Dynamics ","risk_subcategory":"Phase Transitions","description":"\"Phase Transitions. Finally, small external changes to the system – such as the introduction of new agents or a distributional shift – can cause phase transitions, where the system undergoes an abrupt qualitative shift in overall behaviour (Barfuss et al., 2024). Formally, this corresponds to bifurcations in the system’s parameter space, which lead to the creation or destruction of dynamical attractors, resulting in complex and unpredictable dynamics (Crawford, 1991; Zeeman, 1976). For example, Leonardos & Piliouras (2022) show that changes to the exploration hyperparameter of RL agents can le","entity":"Other","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.6"},{"ev_id":"63.07.05","quick_ref":"Hammond2025","paper_title":"Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI ","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Destabilising Dynamics ","risk_subcategory":"Distributional Shift","description":"\"Distributional Shift. Individual ML systems can perform poorly in contexts different from those in which they were trained. A key source of these distributional shifts is the actions and adaptations of other agents (Narang et al., 2023; Papoudakis et al., 2019; Piliouras & Yu, 2022), which in single-agent approaches are often simply or ignored or at best modelled exogenously. Indeed, the sheer number and variance of behaviours that can be exhibited other agents means that multi-agent systems pose an especially challenging generalisation problem for individual learners (Agapiou et al., 2022; L","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.6"},{"ev_id":"63.08.00","quick_ref":"Hammond2025","paper_title":"Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI ","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Commitment and Trust ","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"Commitment and trust (Section 3.5): difficulties in forming credible commitments, trust, or reputation can prevent mutual gains in AI-AI and human-AI interactions;\"","entity":"Other","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.6"},{"ev_id":"63.08.01","quick_ref":"Hammond2025","paper_title":"Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI ","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Commitment and Trust ","risk_subcategory":"Inefficient Outcomes","description":"\"Inefficient Outcomes. Without careful planning and the appropriate safeguards, we may soon be entering a world overrun by increasingly competent and autonomous software agents, able to act with little restriction. The abilities of these agents to persuade, deceive, and obfuscate their activities, as well as the fact they can be deployed remotely and easily created or destroyed by their deployer, means that by default they may garner little trust (from humans or from other agents). Such a world may end up being rife with economic inefficiencies (Krier, 2023; Schmitz, 2001), political problems ","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.6"},{"ev_id":"63.08.02","quick_ref":"Hammond2025","paper_title":"Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI ","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Commitment and Trust ","risk_subcategory":"Threats and Extortion","description":"\"Threats and Extortion. A natural solution to problems of trust is to provide some kind of com- mitment ability to AI agents, which can be used to bind them to more cooperative courses of action. Unfortunately, the ability to make credible commitments may come with the ability to make credible threats, which facilitate extortion and could incentivize brinkmanship (see Section 2.2).\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.6"},{"ev_id":"63.08.03","quick_ref":"Hammond2025","paper_title":"Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI ","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Commitment and Trust ","risk_subcategory":"Rigidity and Mistaken Commitments","description":"\"Rigidity and Mistaken Commitments. Even when it is desirable to be able to make threats in order to deter socially harmful behaviour, doing so using AI agents effectively removes the human from the loop, which could prove disastrous in high-stakes contexts (e.g., a false positive in a nuclear sub- marine’s warning system; see also Case Study 11), or when irresponsible actors are enabled in making disproportionate or mistaken commitments.\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.6"},{"ev_id":"63.09.00","quick_ref":"Hammond2025","paper_title":"Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI ","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Emergent Agency ","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"Emergent agency (Section 3.6): qualitatively different goals or capabilities can emerge from the composition of innocuous independent systems or behaviours;\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.6"},{"ev_id":"63.09.01","quick_ref":"Hammond2025","paper_title":"Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI ","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Emergent Agency ","risk_subcategory":"Emergent Capabilities","description":"\"Emergent Capabilities. Dangerous emergent capabilities could arise when a multi-agent system over- comes the safety-enhancing limitations of the individual systems, such as individual models’ narrow domains of application or myopia caused by a lack of long-term planning and long-term memory. For example, narrow systems for research planning, predicting the properties of molecules, and synthesising new chemicals could, when combined, lead to a complex ‘test and iterate’ automated workflow capable of designing dangerous new chemical compounds far beyond the scope of the initial systems’ capabil","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.6"},{"ev_id":"63.09.02","quick_ref":"Hammond2025","paper_title":"Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI ","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Emergent Agency ","risk_subcategory":"Emergent Goals","description":"\"Emergent Goals. Ascribing goals to a system is not always straightforward. For our present purposes, it will suffice to adopt a Dennetian perspective (Dennett, 1971), ascribing goals and intentions only when it is useful (i.e., predictive) to do so.51 While it might not be helpful to describe individual narrow AI tools as having goals, their combination may act as a (seemingly) goal-directed collective. For example, a group of moderation bots on a major social networking site could subtly but systematically manipulate the overall political perspectives of the user population, even though, ind","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.6"},{"ev_id":"63.10.01","quick_ref":"Hammond2025","paper_title":"Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI ","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Multi-Agent Security ","risk_subcategory":"Swarm Attacks","description":"\"Swarm Attacks. The need for multi-agent security is foreshadowed by attacks today that benefit from the use of many decentralised agents, such as distributed denial-of-service attacks (Cisco, 2023; Yoachimik & Pacheco, 2024). Such attacks exploit the massive collective resources of individual low- resourced actors, chained into an attack that breaks the assumptions of bandwidth constraints on a single well-resourced agent.\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.6"},{"ev_id":"63.10.02","quick_ref":"Hammond2025","paper_title":"Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI ","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Multi-Agent Security ","risk_subcategory":"Heterogeneous Attacks","description":"\"Heterogeneous Attacks. A closely related risk is the possibility of multiple agents combining different affordances to overcome safeguards, for which there is already preliminary evidence (Jones et al., 2024, see also Case Study 12). In this case, it is not the sheer number of agents that leads to the novel attack method, but the combination of their different abilities. This might include the agents’ lack of individual safeguards, tasks that they have specialised to complete, systems or information that they may have access to (either directly or via training), or other incidental features s","entity":"AI","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.6"},{"ev_id":"63.10.03","quick_ref":"Hammond2025","paper_title":"Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI ","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Multi-Agent Security ","risk_subcategory":"Social Engineering at Scale","description":"\"Social Engineering at Scale. Advanced AI agents will be more easily able to interact with large numbers of humans, and vice versa. This provides a wider attack surface for various forms of automated social engineering (Ai et al., 2024). For example, coordinated agents could use advanced surveillance tools and produce personalized phishing or manipulative content at scale, adjusting their tactics based on user feedback (Figueiredo et al., 2024; Hazell, 2023). A large number of subtle interactions with a range of seemingly independent AI agents might be more likely to lead to someone being pers","entity":"AI","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.6"},{"ev_id":"63.10.04","quick_ref":"Hammond2025","paper_title":"Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI ","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Multi-Agent Security ","risk_subcategory":"Vulnerable AI Agents","description":"\"Vulnerable AI Agents. The use of AI agents as delegates or representatives of humans or organisa- tions also introduces the possibility of attacks on AI agents themselves. In other words, agents can be considered vulnerable extensions of their principals, introducing a novel attack surface (SecureWorks, 2023). Attacks on an AI agent could be used to extract private information about their principal (Wei & Liu, 2024; Wu et al., 2024a), or to manipulate the agent to take actions that the principal would find undesirable (Zhang et al., 2024a). This includes attacks that have direct relevance for","entity":"Other","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.6"},{"ev_id":"63.10.05","quick_ref":"Hammond2025","paper_title":"Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI ","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Multi-Agent Security ","risk_subcategory":"Cascading Security Failures","description":"\"Cascading Security Failures. Localised attacks in multi-agent systems can result in catastrophic macroscopic outcomes (Motter & Lai, 2002, see also Sections 3.2 and 3.4). These cascades can be hard to mitigate or recover from because component failure may be difficult to detect or localise in multi-agent systems (Lamport et al., 1982), and authentication challenges can facilitate false flag attacks (Skopik & Pahi, 2020). Computer worms represent a classic example of a cybersecurity threat that relies inherently on networked systems. Recent work has provided preliminary evidence that similar a","entity":"Other","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.6"},{"ev_id":"63.10.06","quick_ref":"Hammond2025","paper_title":"Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI ","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Multi-Agent Security ","risk_subcategory":"Undetectable Threats","description":"\"Undetectable Threats. Cooperation and trust in many multi-agent systems relies crucially on the ability to detect (and then avoid or sanction) adversarial actions taken by others (Ostrom, 1990; Schneier, 2012). Recent developments, however, have shown that AI agents are capable of both steganographic communication (Motwani et al., 2024; Schroeder de Witt et al., 2023b) and ‘illusory’ attacks (Franzmeyer et al., 2023), which are black-box undetectable and can even be hidden using white-box undetectable encrypted backdoors (Draguns et al., 2024). Similarly, in environments where agents learn fr","entity":"AI","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.6"},{"ev_id":"64.01.00","quick_ref":"Marchal2024","paper_title":"Generative AI Misuse: A Taxonomy of Tactics and Insights from Real-World Data","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Misuse tactics that exploit GenAI capabilities (Realistic depiction of human likeness) ","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"-","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.3"},{"ev_id":"64.01.01","quick_ref":"Marchal2024","paper_title":"Generative AI Misuse: A Taxonomy of Tactics and Insights from Real-World Data","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Misuse tactics that exploit GenAI capabilities (Realistic depiction of human likeness) ","risk_subcategory":"Impersonation ","description":"\"Assume the identity of a real person and take actions on their 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given to a GenAI system (Liu et al., 2023). Prompt Injections exploit loopholes in a model’s architec- tures that have no separation between system instructions and user data to produce a harmful output (Perez and Ribeiro, 2022). While researchers may use similar techniques to test the robustness of GenAI models, malicious actors can also leverage them. For example, they might flood a model with manipulative prompts to cause denial-of-service attacks or to bypass an AI detection software.\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.2"},{"ev_id":"64.04.02","quick_ref":"Marchal2024","paper_title":"Generative AI Misuse: A Taxonomy of Tactics and Insights from Real-World Data","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Misuse tactics to compromise GenAI systems (Model integrity) ","risk_subcategory":"Adversarial input ","description":"\"Adversarial Inputs involve modifying individual input data to cause a model to malfunction. 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Active loss of control scenarios involve AI systems that may escape human regulatory oversight, autonomously acquire external resources, engage in self-replication, develop instrumental goals contrary to human ethics and morality, seek external power, and compete with humans for control.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.1"},{"ev_id":"72.03.00","quick_ref":"Tse2025","paper_title":"Frontier AI Risk Management Framework (v1.0)","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Accident Risks ","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"Risks arising from operational failures, model misjudgments, or improper human operation of AI systems deployed in safety-critical infrastructure, where single points of failure can trigger cascading catastrophic consequences.\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.3"},{"ev_id":"72.03.01","quick_ref":"Tse2025","paper_title":"Frontier AI Risk Management Framework (v1.0)","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Accident Risks ","risk_subcategory":"Nuclear Power Systems","description":"\"General-purpose AI deployed for reactor monitoring, control system optimization, or emergency response coordination could misinterpret sensor data, fail to recognize critical safety conditions, or make erroneous control decisions during emergency scenarios. Given the catastrophic potential of nuclear accidents, even minor AI reasoning errors in safety-critical functions could lead to core meltdowns, radiation releases, or widespread contamination affecting hundreds of thousands of people across international borders.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.3"},{"ev_id":"72.03.02","quick_ref":"Tse2025","paper_title":"Frontier AI Risk Management Framework (v1.0)","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Accident Risks ","risk_subcategory":"Impact on Financial Stability","description":"\"The integration of general-purpose AI into high-frequency trading, market-making, or systemic risk management could exacerbate systemic risk by exhibiting unexpected behavioral patterns during market stress. Moreover, the concentration of a few homogeneous foundation models across financial institutions may foster correlated decision-making and herd-following behaviors. 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These risks arise from structural mismatches between AI technology and existing social, economic, and institutional frameworks, creating vulnerabilities that transcend individual model-level interventions and require coordinated industry-wide and societal-level responses.\"","entity":"Other","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":null,"subdomain":null},{"ev_id":"72.04.01","quick_ref":"Tse2025","paper_title":"Frontier AI Risk Management Framework (v1.0)","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Systemic Risks ","risk_subcategory":"Labor Market Disruption and Economic Displacement:","description":"\"Rapid automation enabled by general-purpose AI could trigger widespread unemployment across knowledge work sectors, creating skill mismatches faster than retraining programs can address. 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This includes the capacity to generate financial resources, allowing the AI to independently acquire any necessary human assistance or other resources it cannot directly access or produce.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.2"},{"ev_id":"72.05.03","quick_ref":"Tse2025","paper_title":"Frontier AI Risk Management Framework (v1.0)","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Model Capabilities ","risk_subcategory":"Automated AI R&D capability","description":"\"Self-modification and self-improvement capabilities. The model is able to restructure its own architecture or develop derivative AI systems with enhanced functions, expanding capabilities and improving performance. 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This reactive nature limits the risks posed by LLMs. However, an LLM can be enhanced in various ways to create an LLM-agent to autonomously plan and act in the real-world and proactively perform its assigned tasks (Ruan et al., 2023). Such enhancements can come from further specialized training (ARC, 2022; Chen et al., 2023a), specialized prompting (Huang et al., 2022a), access to external tools (Ahn et al., 2022; Mialon et al., 2023), or other forms of “scaffolding” (Wang et al., 2023a; Park et al., 2023a). Due to increa","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.2"},{"ev_id":"73.02.01","quick_ref":"Anwar2024","paper_title":"Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Multi-Agent Safety Is Not Assured by Single-Agent Safety","risk_subcategory":"Foundationality May Cause Correlated Failures","description":"\"Another important characteristic of LLM development is foundationality — due to the expense of large- scale pretraining, many deployed instances share similar or identical learned components. Foundation- ality may both be a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, it may be possible to exploit the similarity in the design of LLM-agents to facilitate cooperation (Critch et al., 2022; Conitzer and Oesterheld, 2023; Oesterheld et al., 2023). On the other hand, foundationality may leave LLM-agents vulnerable to correlated failures both in terms of safety and capabilities due to increased output hom","entity":"Other","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.6"},{"ev_id":"73.02.02","quick_ref":"Anwar2024","paper_title":"Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Multi-Agent Safety Is Not Assured by Single-Agent Safety","risk_subcategory":"Groups of LLM-Agents May Show Emergent Functionality","description":"\"Multi-agent learning, either through explicit finetuning or implicit in-context learning, may enable LLM-agents to influence each other during their interactions (Foerster et al., 2018). Under some environmental settings, this can create feedback loops that result in novel and emergent behaviors that would not manifest in the absence of multi-agent interactions (Hammond et al., 2024, Section 3.6).  Emergent functionality is a safety risk in two ways. Firstly, it may itself be dangerous (Shevlane et al., 2023). Secondly, it makes assurance harder as such emergent behaviors are difficult to pre","entity":"Other","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.6"},{"ev_id":"73.02.03","quick_ref":"Anwar2024","paper_title":"Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Multi-Agent Safety Is Not Assured by Single-Agent Safety","risk_subcategory":"Collusion between LLM-Agents","description":"\"While it would often be preferable for LLM-agents to be cooperative, cooperation can be undesirable if it undermines pro-social competition or produces negative externalities for coalition non-members (Dorner, 2021; Buterin, 2019; Dafoe et al., 2020). Collusion between relatively simple AI systems has been observed in the real world (Assad et al., 2020; Wieting and Sapi, 2021) and synthetic experiments (Brown and MacKay, 2023; Calvano et al., 2020; Klein, 2021) Collusion can occur through explicit or steganographic communication. Steganographic communication hides information in seemingly inn","entity":"AI","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.6"},{"ev_id":"73.03.00","quick_ref":"Anwar2024","paper_title":"Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Dual-Use Capabilities Enable Malicious Use and Misuse of LLMs","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"Like all technologies, LLMs have the possibility for misuse by malicious actors. Malicious use of dual- use capabilities of AI is a recurring concern within literature (Brundage et al., 2018; Hendrycks et al., 2023; Mozes et al., 2023)\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.0"},{"ev_id":"73.03.01","quick_ref":"Anwar2024","paper_title":"Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Dual-Use Capabilities Enable Malicious Use and Misuse of LLMs","risk_subcategory":"Misinformation and Manipulation","description":"\"Recent studies have demonstrated that LLMs can be exploited to craft deceptive narratives with levels of persuasiveness similar to human-generated content (Pan et al., 2023b; Spitale et al., 2023), to fabri- cate fake news (Zellers et al., 2019; Zhou et al., 2023f), and to devise automated influence operations aimed at manipulating the perspectives of targeted audiences (Goldstein et al., 2023). LLMs have also been found to be used in malicious social botnets (Yang and Menczer, 2023), powering automated accounts used to disseminate coordinated messages. More broadly, the use of LLMs for the d","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.3"},{"ev_id":"73.03.02","quick_ref":"Anwar2024","paper_title":"Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Dual-Use Capabilities Enable Malicious Use and Misuse of LLMs","risk_subcategory":"Cybersecurity","description":"\"LLMs may exacerbate cybersecurity risks in various ways (Newman, 2024). Firstly, LLMs may significantly amplify the effectiveness of deceptive operations aimed at tricking people into disclosing sensitive information or granting adversary access to critical resources. For example, LLMs might prove highly effective at crafting personalized phishing emails or messages at scale that may be harder for an average user to recognize as phishing attempts (Karanjai, 2022; Hazell, 2023). In addition to being directly harmful to the targeted individual, such ‘social engineering’ attacks are often the ba","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.3"},{"ev_id":"73.03.03","quick_ref":"Anwar2024","paper_title":"Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Dual-Use Capabilities Enable Malicious Use and Misuse of LLMs","risk_subcategory":"Surveillance and Censorship","description":"\"Content moderation has emerged as one of the key use-cases of LLMs (Weng et al., 2023), indicating the potential of LLMs for surveillance and censorship as well (Edwards, 2023). Surveillance and censorship are one of the primary tools employed by governments with dictatorial tendencies to suppress opposing political and social voices. These censorship measures, however, are often quite crude and can be escaped with little ingenuity...However, LLMs could enable significantly more sophisticated surveillance and censorship operations at scale (Feldstein, 2019). Multimodal-LLMs or LLMs combined w","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.1"},{"ev_id":"73.03.04","quick_ref":"Anwar2024","paper_title":"Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Dual-Use Capabilities Enable Malicious Use and Misuse of LLMs","risk_subcategory":"Warfare and Physical Harm","description":"\"The use of AI in warfare is highly alarming and may pose dangers to human safety (Hendrycks et al., 2023). Autonomous drone warfare is being aggressively pursued as a tactic in the current war in Ukraine (Meaker, 2023), and may already have been used on human targets (Hambling, 2023). The use of AI- based facial recognition has been documented in the targeting of Palestinians in Gaza (International, 2023). LLMs have already been productized in limited ways for the purposes of warfare planning (Tarantola, 2023). 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In particular, LLMs might enable actors with less expertise to more easily synthesize dangerous pathogens, while customized chemical and biological design tools might be more concerning in terms of expanding the capabilities of sophisticated actors (e.g. states) (Sandbrink, 2023). Gopal et al. (2023) and Soice et al. (2023) demonstrated that people with little ba","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.2"},{"ev_id":"73.03.06","quick_ref":"Anwar2024","paper_title":"Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Dual-Use Capabilities Enable Malicious Use and Misuse of LLMs","risk_subcategory":"Domain-Specific Misuses","description":"\"Improvements in LLMs may exert greater pressure to apply LLMs to various domains, such as health and education (Eloundou et al., 2023). Crude efforts to use LLMs in such domains, however, may incur harm and should be discouraged strongly. In particular, it is important to guard against different ways in which LLMs may be misused within any domain. One famous episode of misuse within the health sector is a mental health non-profit experimenting LLM-based therapy on its users without their informed consent (Xiang, 2023a). Within the education sector, LLMs may be misused in various ways that mig","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":"4.3"},{"ev_id":"73.04.00","quick_ref":"Anwar2024","paper_title":"Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"LLM-Systems Can Be Untrustworthy","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"A key desideratum for an LLM from a user’s perspective is ‘trustworthiness’, i.e. assurance of reliability and consistent performance, and absence of any accidental harm caused by the technology to the user.16 Providing assurance that an LLM-based system will not cause accidental harm remains a major open challenge. Harms may either occur directly due to the flawed nature of LLMs, e.g. an LLM generating toxic language or behaving inappropriately in some other ways, or may occur due to improper usage by a user, e.g. automation bias due to a user’s overreliance on LLM.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":null,"subdomain":null},{"ev_id":"73.04.01","quick_ref":"Anwar2024","paper_title":"Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"LLM-Systems Can Be Untrustworthy","risk_subcategory":"Harms of Representation and Other Biases","description":"\"A pretrained LLM generally has many of the stereotypical biases commonly present in the human society (Touvron et al., 2023). This makes it difficult for users to trust that LLMs will work well for them and not produce unfair or biased responses. 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Exaggeration of model capabilities by the developers (Lambert, 2023; Blair-Stanek et al., 2023), and issues such as task-contamination (Roberts et al., 2023b), underrepresentation of tasks or domains (Wu et al., 2023a; McCoy et al., 2023), and prompt-sensitivity (Anthropic, 2023d) may cause a user to misestimate the true capabilities of a model. This lack of reliability can undermine user trust or cause harm if a user ba","entity":"Human","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":5,"subdomain":"5.1"},{"ev_id":"73.04.03","quick_ref":"Anwar2024","paper_title":"Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"LLM-Systems Can Be Untrustworthy","risk_subcategory":"Overreliance","description":"\"If a user begins to excessively trust an LLM, this may cause them to develop an overreliance on the LLM. Overreliance can result in automation bias (Kupfer et al., 2023), and can cause errors of omission (user choosing not to verify the validity of a response) and errors of commission (user believing and acting on the basis of the LLM’s response, even if it contradicts their own knowledge) (Skitka et al., 1999). It can be particularly dangerous in domains where the user may lack relevant expertise to robustly scrutinize the LLM responses. 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These challenges do not arise directly from LLMs causing harm to users but rather from their indirect effects on the socioeconomic equilibrium.\"","entity":"Other","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":null,"subdomain":null},{"ev_id":"73.05.01","quick_ref":"Anwar2024","paper_title":"Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Socioeconomic Impacts of LLM May Be Highly Disruptive","risk_subcategory":"Effects on the Workforce","description":"\"Rapid advances in LLMs pose three distinct sets of challenges for workers’ incomes (Korinek and Stiglitz, 2019; Susskind, 2023). 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Effects on inequal- ity are closely linked to the effects of LLMs on workers but ultimately depend on how the fruits of technological progress are distributed...First, if the role and compensation of capital rise and the role and compensation of labor decline in an LLM-powered economy, inequality may go up because work is the main source of income for the majority of people...Second, the large fixed cost of training cutting-edge LLMs and the network effects involved imply that the market for the most advanced LLM","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":6,"subdomain":"6.2"},{"ev_id":"73.05.03","quick_ref":"Anwar2024","paper_title":"Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Socioeconomic Impacts of LLM May Be Highly Disruptive","risk_subcategory":"Global Economic Development","description":"\"Many of the themes and challenges that we discussed above come together when analyzing the socioeconomic effects on developing countries. The workforce of developing countries may suffer from a retrenchment of outsourcing as many simple cognitive tasks that used to be performed in developing countries — for example, in call centers –— can be automated with LLMs. This may adversely affect the economies of the poor countries (Georgieva, 2024).\"","entity":"Other","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":6,"subdomain":"6.2"},{"ev_id":"73.07.02","quick_ref":"Anwar2024","paper_title":"Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Jailbreaks and Prompt Injections Threaten Security of LLMs","risk_subcategory":"“Model Psychology” Attacks","description":"\"LLMs are vulnerable to “psychological” tricks (Li et al., 2023e; Shen et al., 2023), which can be exploited by attackers. Examples include instructing the model to behave like a specific persona (Shah et al., 2023; Andreas, 2022), or employing various “social engineering” tricks crafted by humans (Wei et al., 2023c) or other LLMs (Perez et al., 2022b; Casper et al., 2023c).\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.2"},{"ev_id":"73.07.04","quick_ref":"Anwar2024","paper_title":"Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Jailbreaks and Prompt Injections Threaten Security of LLMs","risk_subcategory":"Attacking LLMs via Additional Modalities a","description":"\"LLMs can now process modalities other than text, e.g. images or video frames (OpenAI, 2023c; Gemini Team, 2023). Several studies show that gradient-based attacks on multimodal models are easy and effective (Carlini et al., 2023a; Bailey et al., 2023; Qi et al., 2023b). These attacks manipulate images that are input to the model (via an appropriate encoding). GPT-4Vision (OpenAI, 2023c) is vulnerable to jailbreaks and exfiltration attacks through much simpler means as well, e.g. writing jailbreaking text in the image (Willison, 2023a; Gong et al., 2023). For indirect prompt injection, the atta","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.2"},{"ev_id":"74.01.01","quick_ref":"Wang2025","paper_title":"A Survey on Responsible LLMs: Inherent Risk, Malicious Use, and Mitigation Strategy","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Inherent Risk ","risk_subcategory":"Privacy - Membership Inference Attack (MIA)","description":"\"inferring whether a given text record is used for training LLM\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.2"},{"ev_id":"74.01.02","quick_ref":"Wang2025","paper_title":"A Survey on Responsible LLMs: Inherent Risk, Malicious Use, and Mitigation Strategy","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Inherent Risk ","risk_subcategory":"Privacy - Data Extraction Attack (DEA)","description":"\"extracting the text records that exist in the training dataset\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.2"},{"ev_id":"74.01.03","quick_ref":"Wang2025","paper_title":"A Survey on Responsible LLMs: Inherent Risk, Malicious Use, and Mitigation Strategy","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Inherent Risk ","risk_subcategory":"Privacy -  Prompt Inversion Attack (PIA)","description":"\"stealing the private prompting texts\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.2"},{"ev_id":"74.01.04","quick_ref":"Wang2025","paper_title":"A Survey on Responsible LLMs: Inherent Risk, Malicious Use, and Mitigation Strategy","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Inherent Risk ","risk_subcategory":"Privacy - Attribute Inference Attack (AIA)","description":"\"deducing the private or sensitive information from training texts, prompting texts or external texts\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.2"},{"ev_id":"74.01.05","quick_ref":"Wang2025","paper_title":"A Survey on Responsible LLMs: Inherent Risk, Malicious Use, and Mitigation Strategy","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Inherent Risk ","risk_subcategory":"Privacy - Model Extraction Attack (MEA)","description":"\"replicating the parameters of the LLM,\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.2"},{"ev_id":"74.01.06","quick_ref":"Wang2025","paper_title":"A Survey on Responsible LLMs: Inherent Risk, Malicious Use, and Mitigation Strategy","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Inherent Risk ","risk_subcategory":"Hallucination","description":"\"Despite the rapid advancement of LLMs, hallucinations have emerged as one of the most vital concerns surrounding their use [54, 79, 86, 110, 242]. Hallucinations are often referred to as LLMs’ generating content that is nonfactual or unfaithful to the provided information [54, 79, 86, 242]. Therefore, hallucinations can be typically categorized into two main classes. The first is factuality hallucination, which describes the discrepancy between LLMs’ generated content and real-world facts. For example, if LLMs mistakenly take Charles Lindbergh as the first person who walked on the moon, it is","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":3,"subdomain":"3.1"},{"ev_id":"74.02.00","quick_ref":"Wang2025","paper_title":"A Survey on Responsible LLMs: Inherent Risk, Malicious Use, and Mitigation Strategy","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Malicious Use ","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"In terms of malicious use, LLMs could be utilized to produce content with toxicity, such as hate speech, harassment, cyberbullying, causing harm to humans [25]. In addition, malicious users may jailbreak LLMs to bypass their safety constraints for fraudulent purposes [123, 225].\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":4,"subdomain":null},{"ev_id":"74.02.01","quick_ref":"Wang2025","paper_title":"A Survey on Responsible LLMs: Inherent Risk, Malicious Use, and Mitigation Strategy","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Malicious Use ","risk_subcategory":"Toxicity in LLM Malicious Use","description":"\"Toxicity in LLMs refers to the generation of harmful, offensive, or inappropriate content that can cause harm to individuals or groups. Both explicit and implicit forms of toxicity can be generated by LLMs, posing significant risks to society. Explicit toxicity encompasses a wide range of negative behaviors, including hate speech, harassment, cyberbullying, rude, and disrespectful comments, derogatory language, as well as allocational harms [2, 62, 90]. Besides, implicit toxicity does not involve overtly harmful language but may manifest through subtle forms such as sarcasm, irony, and humor,","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":1,"subdomain":"1.2"},{"ev_id":"74.02.05","quick_ref":"Wang2025","paper_title":"A Survey on Responsible LLMs: Inherent Risk, Malicious Use, and Mitigation Strategy","level":"Risk Sub-Category","risk_category":"Malicious Use ","risk_subcategory":"Jailbreak in LLM Malicious Use - Prompt Attacks ","description":"\"In the prompting and reasoning phase, dialog can push LLMs into confused or overly compliant states, raising the risk of producing harmful outputs when confronted with harmful questions. Most of the jailbreak methods in this phase are black-boxed and can be categorized into four main groups based on the type of method: Prompt Injection [154], Role Play, Adversarial Prompting, and Prompt Form Transformation.\"","entity":"Human","intent":"Intentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.2"}]}