MIT AI Risk Repository
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17 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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46.01.00 · Risk Category
"These types of harm encompass threats to an individual’s personal identity, such as identity theft, privacy breaches, or personal defamation, which we term as “Harm to the Person.”"
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46.03.00 · Risk Category
"The distortion of the information ecosystem, including the spread of misinformation, fake news, and other forms of deceptive content [28], is categorized as “Information Manipulation.”"
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46.04.00 · Risk Category
"Lastly, broader harms that can impact communities, societal structures, and critical infrastructures, including threats to democratic processes, social cohesion, and technological systems, are captured under “Societal, Socio-technical, and Infrastructural Damage.”"
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"GenAI can produce images of people that look very real, as if they could be seen on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or Tinder. Although these individuals do not exist in reality, these synthetic identities are already being used in malicious activities (see Table 1D)."
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"AI-generated impersonation for identity theft might be found at the intersection of “Harm to the Person” and “Deception.”"
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"LLMs can be deployed to target individuals online, sending them personalized and harmful messages at scale"
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46.02.00 · Risk Category
"Then, we have the potential for financial loss, fraud, market manipulation, and other economic harms, which fall under “Financial and Economic Damage.”
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"AI-driven fake news campaigns to influence public opinion could be represented at the crossroads of “Information Manipulation” and “Propaganda.”"
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Where do these risk entries come from?
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.
What do entity, intent and timing mean?
They are the causal coding. Entity is whether a human or the AI system is the cause; intent is whether the harm was intentional or not; timing is whether it arises before or after deployment. Together they let you separate misuse from malfunction.
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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.