BackValue lock-in
Category
Risk Domain
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.
the most powerful AI systems may be designed by and available to fewer and fewer stakeholders. This may enable, for instance, regimes to enforce narrow values through pervasive surveillance and oppressive censorship(p. 13)
Entity— Who or what caused the harm
Intent— Whether the harm was intentional or accidental
Timing— Whether the risk is pre- or post-deployment
Other risks from Hendrycks & Mazeika (2022) (7)
Weaponization
4.2 Cyberattacks, weapon development or use, and mass harmHumanIntentionalPost-deployment
Enfeeblement
5.2 Loss of human agency and autonomyHumanIntentionalPost-deployment
Eroded epistemics
3.2 Pollution of information ecosystem and loss of consensus realityAI systemOtherPost-deployment
Proxy misspecification
7.1 AI pursuing its own goals in conflict with human goals or valuesOtherOtherPre-deployment
Emergent functionality
7.2 AI possessing dangerous capabilitiesAI systemUnintentionalPost-deployment
Deception
7.1 AI pursuing its own goals in conflict with human goals or valuesAI systemIntentionalOther