BackMisuse risks
Misuse risks
"Frontier AI may help bad actors to perform cyberattacks, run disinformation campaigns and design biological or chemical weapons. Frontier AI will almost certainly continue to lower the barriers to entry for less sophisticated threat actors.192 We focus here on only a few important misuse risks, but this is not to downplay the importance of others."
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 DSIT (2023) (12)
Bias, Fairness and Representational Harms
1.1 Unfair discrimination and misrepresentationAI systemUnintentionalOther
Loss of control
5.2 Loss of human agency and autonomyOtherOtherPost-deployment
Loss of control > Degradation of the information environment
3.2 Pollution of information ecosystem and loss of consensus realityOtherOtherOther
Loss of control > Labour market disruption
6.2 Increased inequality and decline in employment qualityOtherOtherOther
Loss of control > Dual Use Science risks
4.2 Cyberattacks, weapon development or use, and mass harmHumanIntentionalPost-deployment
Loss of control > Cyber
4.2 Cyberattacks, weapon development or use, and mass harmHumanIntentionalPost-deployment