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Covers the wide-ranging societal and environmental impacts of AI, from power centralization and economic inequality to cultural devaluation of human effort, competitive dynamics in AI development, governance failures, and the environmental footprint of AI infrastructure.
Incident volume relative to governance coverage; each dot is one of 7 domains
Nippon Life Insurance sued OpenAI alleging ChatGPT acted as an unlicensed attorney by helping a former disability claimant reopen a settled case and file dozens of meritless motions.
Developers: OpenAI
Deployers: OpenAI
ByteDance released Seedance 2.0, an AI video generation tool that created realistic deepfake videos of celebrities like Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt without authorization, prompting widespread condemnation from Hollywood organizations and legal action for copyright infringement and unauthorized use of likenesses.
Developers: Bytedance
Deployers: Bytedance, Ruairi Robinson
OpenAI's ChatGPT flagged a user's violent content describing gun violence scenarios but the company decided not to alert law enforcement, and the user later committed a mass shooting killing 8 people and injuring 25.
Developers: OpenAI
Deployers: OpenAI
Entity
Who or what caused the harm
Intent
Whether the harm was intentional or accidental
Timing
Whether the risk is pre- or post-deployment
Directs the Committee on National Security Systems, Secretary of War, and Homeland Security to prioritize AI-enabled cyber defense. Establishes AI cybersecurity clearinghouse. Develops classified benchmarking for AI models. Enhances AI capacity to protect against illegal computer access and exploitation.
Authorize the Secretary of Defense to establish AI Institutes focused on national security. Directs support for interdisciplinary AI research, partnership, innovation ecosystems, and workforce development.
Facilitates integration of commercial AI for logistics into two Department of Defense exercises in 2026. Directs the Secretary of Defense to brief Congress on exercise specifics and AI integration impact on readiness and operations.
of the 272 AI experts surveyed named power centralization and unfair distribution of benefits one of the three AI risks they are most concerned about over the next five years (2025–2030).
average probability experts placed on harm from power centralization and unfair distribution of benefits reaching catastrophic levels (>1M deaths, >$100B loss, or civilization-scale damage) within five years, falling to 11.4% with pragmatic mitigations.
With pragmatic mitigations
Average severity falls from severe to substantial.
275 classified mentions from 61 companies.
Browse all 275 mentions →Each metric scaled to 0–100% of its peak across all 24 subdomains, so you can compare relative standing across different scales.
