Agency (Persuasive capabilities)
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.
"GPAI systems can produce outputs (such as natural language text, audio, or video) that convince their users of incorrect information. This can happen through personalized persuasion in dialogue, or the mass-production of mis- leading information that is then disseminated over the internet. The persuasive capabilities of GPAI models can sometimes scale with model size or capability [32, 172]. Persuasive models could have larger societal implications by being misused to generate convincing but manipulative or untruthful content."(p. 34)
Other risks from Gipiškis et al. (2024) (144)
Direct Harm Domains (content safety harms)
1.2 Exposure to toxic contentDirect Harm Domains (content safety harms) > Violence and extremism
1.2 Exposure to toxic contentDirect Harm Domains (content safety harms) > Hate and toxicity
1.2 Exposure to toxic contentDirect Harm Domains (content safety harms) > Sexual content
1.2 Exposure to toxic contentDirect Harm Domains (content safety harms) > Child harm
1.2 Exposure to toxic contentDirect Harm Domains (content safety harms) > Self-harm
1.2 Exposure to toxic content