MIT AI Risk Repository
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16 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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19.01.07 · Risk Sub-Category
Technological, Data and Analytical AI Risks
High investment costs of AI hinder integration
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19.03.04 · Risk Sub-Category
Financial feasibility and high investment costs for AI technology to remain competitive
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19.03.05 · Risk Sub-Category
Lack of AI strategy and acceptance/resistance among employees and customers
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19.06.04 · Risk Sub-Category
Hard legislation on AI hinders innovation processes and further AI development
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19.03.00 · Risk Category
"In the context of economic AI risks two major risks dominate. These refer to the disruption of the economic system due to an increase of AI technologies and automation. For instance, a higher level of AI integration into the manufacturing industry may result in massive unemployment, leading to a loss of taxpayers and thus negatively impacting the economic system (Boyd & Wilson, 2017; Scherer, 2016). This may also be associated with the risk of losing control and knowledge of organisational processes as AI systems take over an increasing number of tasks, replacing employees in these processes.
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19.03.02 · Risk Sub-Category
Replacement of humans and unemployment due to AI automation
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19.04.00 · Risk Category
"Social AI risks particularly refer to loss of jobs (technological unemployment) due to increasing automation, reflected in a growing resistance by employees towards the integration of AI (Thierer et al., 2017; Winfield & Jirotka, 2018). In addition, the increasing integration of AI systems into all spheres of life poses a growing threat to privacy and to the security of individuals and society as a whole (Winfield & Jirotka, 2018; Wirtz et al., 2019)."
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19.03.01 · Risk Sub-Category
Disruption of economic systems (e.g., labour market, money value, tax system)
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19.01.05 · Risk Sub-Category
Technological, Data and Analytical AI Risks
Lack of AI experts with comprehensive AI knowledge
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19.06.00 · Risk Category
"Legal and regulatory risks comprise in particular the unclear definition of responsibilities and accountability in case of AI failures and autonomous decisions with negative impacts (Reed, 2018; Scherer, 2016). Another great risk in this context refers to overlooking the scope of AI governance and missing out on important governance aspects, resulting in negative consequences (Gasser & Almeida, 2017; Thierer et al., 2017)."
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19.06.01 · Risk Sub-Category
Unclear definition of responsibilities and accountability for AI judgments and their consequences
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19.06.03 · Risk Sub-Category
Great scope and ubiquity of AI make appropriate governance difficult, coverage of governance scope almost impossibl
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19.06.05 · Risk Sub-Category
Capturing future AI development and their threats with appropriate mechanism
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The MIT AI Risk Repository, which extracts risks from dozens of published frameworks, taxonomies and papers and codes each one by domain and subdomain, and by a causal taxonomy of entity, intent and timing. This is a browseable copy, attributed and openly licensed, not original research.
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A living database of AI risks extracted from published frameworks, taxonomies and papers, classified by a causal taxonomy of entity, intent and timing and by a domain taxonomy of seven domains and 24 subdomains. It is published by the MIT AI Risk Initiative under CC BY 4.0.