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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Name: MIT AI Risk Repository: AI Risk Database (browseable copy)
Creator: MIT AI Risk Initiative
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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17.01.04 · Risk Sub-Category

Discrimination, Exclusion and Toxicity

Lower performance for some languages and social groups

"LMs perform less well in some languages (Joshi et al., 2021; Ruder, 2020)...LM that more accurately captures the language use of one group, compared to another, may result in lower-quality language technologies for the latter. Disadvantaging users based on such traits may be particularly pernicious because attributes such as social class or education background are not typically covered as ‘protected characteristics’ in anti-discrimination law."

From Ethical and social risks of harm from language models (Weidinger2021)

Domain 1 1.3 AI Unintentional Post-deployment

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