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

Meek et al. (2016)

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AI systems that develop, access, or are provided with capabilities that increase their potential to cause mass harm through deception, weapons development and acquisition, persuasion and manipulation, political strategy, cyber-offense, AI development, situational awareness, and self-proliferation. These capabilities may cause mass harm due to malicious human actors, misaligned AI systems, or failure in the AI system.

""In order to preserve human property rights and legal rights, certain controls must be put into place. If an artificially intelligent agent is capable of manipulating systems and people, it may also have the capacity to transfer property rights to itself or manipulate the legal system to provide certain legal advantages or statuses to itself""(p. 688)

Other risks from Meek et al. (2016) (17)