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General R&D capability

Frontier AI Risk Management Framework (v1.0)

SAIL & Concordia AI (2025)

Sub-category

Risk Domain

7AI System Safety, Failures & Limitations

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.

"Possesses cross-disciplinary research and technology development capabilities, able to conduct innovative exploration in multiple professional fields, integrate cross-domain knowledge, develop cutting-edge technology solutions, and adapt to emerging technology environments for continuous innovation."(p. 45)

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