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BackExacerbating Market Power and Concentration
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Exacerbating Market Power and Concentration

Generating Harms - Generative AI's impact and paths forwards

Electronic Privacy Information Centre (2023)

Source
Category
Risk Domain
6Socioeconomic & Environmental
6.1Power centralization and unfair distribution of benefits

AI-driven concentration of power and resources within certain entities or groups, especially those with access to or ownership of powerful AI systems, leading to inequitable distribution of benefits and increased societal inequality.

"Major tech companies have also been the dominant players in developing new generative AI systems because training generative AI models requires massive swaths of data, computing power, and technical and financial resources."(p. 57)

Entity: Who or what caused the harm

Human

Due to a decision or action made by humans

AI system

Due to a decision or action made by an AI system

Other

Due to some other reason or is ambiguous

Intent: Whether the harm was intentional or accidental

Intentional

Due to an expected outcome from pursuing a goal

Unintentional

Due to an unexpected outcome from pursuing a goal

Other

Without clearly specifying the intentionality

Timing: Whether the risk is pre- or post-deployment

Pre-deployment

Occurring before the AI is deployed

Post-deployment

Occurring after the AI model has been trained and deployed

Other

Without a clearly specified time of occurrence

Other risks from Electronic Privacy Information Centre (2023) (21)

Information Manipulation

4.1 Disinformation, surveillance, and influence at scale
HumanIntentionalPost-deployment

Information Manipulation > Scams

4.3 Fraud, scams, and targeted manipulation
HumanIntentionalPost-deployment

Information Manipulation > Disinformation

4.1 Disinformation, surveillance, and influence at scale
HumanIntentionalPost-deployment

Information Manipulation > Misinformation

3.1 False or misleading information
AI systemUnintentionalPost-deployment

Information Manipulation > Security

4.2 Cyberattacks, weapon development or use, and mass harm
HumanIntentionalPost-deployment

Information Manipulation > Clickbait and feeding the surveillance advertising ecosystem

3.2 Pollution of information ecosystem and loss of consensus reality
OtherOtherOther
View all 21 risks from this paper →