Browse AI risks

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1. 01.05.00 · Risk Category

   Type 5: Criminal weaponization

   One or more criminal entities could create AI to intentionally inflict harms, such as for terrorism or combating law enforcement.

   From TASRA: a Taxonomy and Analysis of Societal-Scale Risks from AI (Critch2023)

   Domain 4 4.2 Human Intentional Post-deployment

2. 01.06.00 · Risk Category

   Type 6: State Weaponization

   AI deployed by states in war, civil war, or law enforcement can easily yield societal-scale harm

   From TASRA: a Taxonomy and Analysis of Societal-Scale Risks from AI (Critch2023)

   Domain 4 4.2 Human Intentional Post-deployment

3. 01.04.00 · Risk Category

   Type 4: Willful indifference

   As a side effect of a primary goal like profit or influence, AI creators can willfully allow it to cause widespread societal harms like pollution, resource depletion, mental illness, misinformation, or injustice.

   From TASRA: a Taxonomy and Analysis of Societal-Scale Risks from AI (Critch2023)

   Domain 6 6.4 Human Unintentional Post-deployment

4. 01.01.00 · Risk Category

   Type 1: Diffusion of responsibility

   Societal-scale harm can arise from AI built by a diffuse collection of creators, where no one is uniquely accountable for the technology's creation or use, as in a classic "tragedy of the commons".

   From TASRA: a Taxonomy and Analysis of Societal-Scale Risks from AI (Critch2023)

   Domain 6 6.5 AI Unintentional Other

5. 01.02.00 · Risk Category

   Type 2: Bigger than expected

   Harm can result from AI that was not expected to have a large impact at all, such as a lab leak, a surprisingly addictive open-source product, or an unexpected repurposing of a research prototype.

   From TASRA: a Taxonomy and Analysis of Societal-Scale Risks from AI (Critch2023)

   Domain 7 7.3 AI Unintentional Post-deployment

6. 01.03.00 · Risk Category

   Type 3: Worse than expected

   AI intended to have a large societal impact can turn out harmful by mistake, such as a popular product that creates problems and partially solves them only for its users.

   From TASRA: a Taxonomy and Analysis of Societal-Scale Risks from AI (Critch2023)

   Domain 7 7.3 AI Unintentional Post-deployment

7. 01.01.00.a · Additional evidence

   Type 1: Diffusion of responsibility

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   From TASRA: a Taxonomy and Analysis of Societal-Scale Risks from AI (Critch2023)

8. 01.01.00.b · Additional evidence

   Type 1: Diffusion of responsibility

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   From TASRA: a Taxonomy and Analysis of Societal-Scale Risks from AI (Critch2023)

9. 01.01.00.c · Additional evidence

   Type 1: Diffusion of responsibility

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   From TASRA: a Taxonomy and Analysis of Societal-Scale Risks from AI (Critch2023)

10. 01.02.00.a · Additional evidence

    Type 2: Bigger than expected

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    From TASRA: a Taxonomy and Analysis of Societal-Scale Risks from AI (Critch2023)

11. 01.03.00.a · Additional evidence

    Type 3: Worse than expected

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    From TASRA: a Taxonomy and Analysis of Societal-Scale Risks from AI (Critch2023)

12. 01.03.00.b · Additional evidence

    Type 3: Worse than expected

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    From TASRA: a Taxonomy and Analysis of Societal-Scale Risks from AI (Critch2023)

13. 01.03.00.c · Additional evidence

    Type 3: Worse than expected

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    From TASRA: a Taxonomy and Analysis of Societal-Scale Risks from AI (Critch2023)

14. 01.03.00.d · Additional evidence

    Type 3: Worse than expected

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    From TASRA: a Taxonomy and Analysis of Societal-Scale Risks from AI (Critch2023)

15. 01.03.00.e · Additional evidence

    Type 3: Worse than expected

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    From TASRA: a Taxonomy and Analysis of Societal-Scale Risks from AI (Critch2023)

16. 01.03.00.f · Additional evidence

    Type 3: Worse than expected

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    From TASRA: a Taxonomy and Analysis of Societal-Scale Risks from AI (Critch2023)

17. 01.04.00.a · Additional evidence

    Type 4: Willful indifference

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    From TASRA: a Taxonomy and Analysis of Societal-Scale Risks from AI (Critch2023)

18. 01.04.00.b · Additional evidence

    Type 4: Willful indifference

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    From TASRA: a Taxonomy and Analysis of Societal-Scale Risks from AI (Critch2023)

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