MIT AI Risk Repository
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12 risk entries extracted from 74 frameworks, coded by domain, subdomain, causal entity, intent and timing. Filter, then export the current selection with its licence and citation attached.
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"AI’s potential for both beneficial and harmful applications complicates efforts to manage its societal impacts effectively."
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"Large-scale influence on communication and information systems, and epistemic processes more generally."
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"AI could be used to develop sophisticated tools to manipulate and persuade individuals."
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61.02.04 · Risk Sub-Category
Sources of systemic risks from general-purpose AI
Advertising-driven models
"AI models and systems underpin the advertising approaches that drive much of the internet, potentially influencing societal behavior."
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61.02.05 · Risk Sub-Category
Sources of systemic risks from general-purpose AI
AI in totalitarian regimes
"AI-based surveillance and manipulation could be used to maintain global totalitarian regimes."
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61.02.34 · Risk Sub-Category
Sources of systemic risks from general-purpose AI
Limitations in model generative accuracy
"AI-generated deepfakes can create convincingly realistic but entirely fabricated information."
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61.02.43 · Risk Sub-Category
Sources of systemic risks from general-purpose AI
Surveillance capabilities
"AI models and systems may grant governments or corporations increased monitoring over individuals."
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61.02.49 · Risk Sub-Category
Sources of systemic risks from general-purpose AI
Widespread use of persuasion tools
"Widespread use of AI-powered persuasion tools could lead to systemic harm"
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"The dangers of AI amplifying the effectiveness/failures of nuclear, chemical, biological, and radiological weapons."
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61.02.02 · Risk Sub-Category
Sources of systemic risks from general-purpose AI
Ability to enhance and modify pathogens
"AI can be used to enhance pathogens, making them more lethal or resistant to treatments."
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"Powerful AI technologies may fall into the hands of terrorists."
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61.02.48 · Risk Sub-Category
Sources of systemic risks from general-purpose AI
Weaponization capabilities
"AI capabilities that could be deliberately weaponized for destructive purposes."
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