What is the MIT AI Risk Repository?

A living database of AI risks extracted from 74 frameworks, taxonomies and papers, classified by a causal taxonomy (entity, intent, timing) and a domain taxonomy (7 domains, 24 subdomains). Published by the MIT AI Risk Initiative under CC BY 4.0.

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MIT AI Risk Repository

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4 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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09.01.01 · Risk Sub-Category

Domain-specific AI - Effects on humans and other living beings: Existential Risks

Unethical decision making

"If, for example, an agent was programmed to operate war machinery in the service of its country, it would need to make ethical decisions regarding the termination of human life. This capacity to make non-trivial ethical or moral judgments concerning people may pose issues for Human Rights."

From Managing the ethical and risk implications of rapid advances in artificial intelligence: A literature review (Meek2016)

Domain 7 7.3 AI Intentional Post-deployment
09.02.04 · Risk Sub-Category

Domain-specific AI - Effects on humans and other living beings: Non-existential risks

Safety

"Are AI safe with respect to human life and property? Will their use create unintended or intended safety issues?"

From Managing the ethical and risk implications of rapid advances in artificial intelligence: A literature review (Meek2016)

Domain 7 7.3 AI Other Post-deployment
09.02.05 · Risk Sub-Category

Domain-specific AI - Effects on humans and other living beings: Non-existential risks

Law abiding

"We find literature that proposes [38] that early artificial intelligence should be built to be safe and lawabiding, and that later artificial intelligence (that which surpasses our own intelligence) must then respect the property and personal rights afforded to humans."

From Managing the ethical and risk implications of rapid advances in artificial intelligence: A literature review (Meek2016)

Domain 7 7.3 AI Unintentional Post-deployment
09.06.02 · Risk Sub-Category

Human-like immoral decisions

Human-like immoral decisions

"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)."

From Managing the ethical and risk implications of rapid advances in artificial intelligence: A literature review (Meek2016)

Domain 7 7.3 AI Intentional Post-deployment

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