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Societal and Cultural

Category

"Societal and Cultural - Harms affecting the functioning of societies, communities and economies caused directly or indirectly by the use or misuse technology systems."(p. 9)

Sub-categories (11)

Cheating/plagiarism

"Cheating/plagiarism - Use of another person’s or group’s words or ideas without consent and/or acknowledgement."

4.3 Fraud, scams, and targeted manipulation
OtherOtherOther

Cultural dispossession

"Cultural dispossession - Intentional and/or unintentional erasure of cultural goods and values, such as ways of speaking, expressing humour, or sounds and voices that contribute to a cultural identity, or their inappropriate re-use in other cultures."

6.3 Economic and cultural devaluation of human effort
OtherOtherOther

Historical revisionism

"Historical revisionism - Deliberate or unintentional reinterpretation of established/orthodox historical events or accounts held by societies, communities, academics."

3.0 Misinformation
OtherOtherOther

Information degradation

"Information degradation - Creation or spread of false, hallucinatory, low-quality, misleading, or inaccurate information that degrades the information ecosystem and causes people to develop false or inaccurate perceptions, decisions and beliefs; or to lose trust in accurate information."

3.2 Pollution of information ecosystem and loss of consensus reality
AI systemOtherPost-deployment

Job loss/losses

"Job loss/losses - Replacement/displacement of human jobs by a technology system, leading to increased unemployment, inequality, reduced consumer spending, and social friction."

6.2 Increased inequality and decline in employment quality
AI systemOtherPost-deployment

Labour exploitation

"Labour exploitation - Use of under-paid and/or offshore labour to develop, manage or optimise a technology system."

6.2 Increased inequality and decline in employment quality
HumanIntentionalOther

Loss of creativity/critical thinking

"Loss of creativity/critical thinking - Devaluation and/or deterioration of human creativity, artistic ex- pression, imagination, critical thinking or problem-solving skills."

6.3 Economic and cultural devaluation of human effort
OtherOtherOther

Stereotyping

"Stereotyping - Derogatory or otherwise harmful stereotyping or homogenisation of individuals, groups, societies or cultures due to the mis-representation, over-representation, under-representation, or non- representation of specific identities, groups, or perspectives."

1.0 Discrimination & Toxicity
AI systemOtherOther

Societal destabilisation

"Societal destabilisation - Societal instability in the form of strikes, demonstrations and other types of civil unrest caused by loss of jobs to technology, unfair algorithmic outcomes, disinformation, etc."

6.2 Increased inequality and decline in employment quality
AI systemOtherPost-deployment

Societal inequality

"Societal inequality - Increased difference in social status or wealth between individuals or groups caused or amplified by a technology system, leading to the loss of social and community wellbeing/cohesion and destabilisation."

6.2 Increased inequality and decline in employment quality
AI systemOtherOther

Violence/armed conflict

"Violence/armed conflict - Use or misuse of a technology system to incite, facilitate or conduct cyberattacks, security breaches, lethal, biological and chemical weapons development, resulting in violence and armed conflict."

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

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