What is AI risk
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While the particular forms of these risks continue to evolve, at least the following factors can create, contribute to, or exacerbate these risks:
AI outputs that are inaccurate or misleading;
AI outputs that are unreliable, ineffective, or not robust;
AI outputs that are discriminatory or have a discriminatory effect;
AI outputs that contribute to actions or decisions resulting in harmful or unsafe outcomes, including AI outputs that lower the barrier for people to take intentional and harmful actions;
AI being used for tasks to which it is poorly suited or being inappropriately repurposed in a context for which it was not intended;
AI being used in a context in which affected people have a reasonable expectation that a human is or should be primarily responsible for a decision or action; and
the adversarial evasion or manipulation of AI, such as an entity purposefully inducing AI to misclassify an input.
Safety-Impacting AI:58 The term “safety-impacting AI” refers to AI whose output produces an action or serves as a principal basis for a decision that has the potential to significantly impact the safety of:
Human life or well-being, including loss of life, serious injury, bodily harm, biological or chemical harms, occupational hazards, harassment or abuse, or mental health, including both individual and community aspects of these harms;
Climate or environment, including irreversible or significant environmental damage;
Critical infrastructure, including the critical infrastructure sectors defined in Presidential Policy Directive 2159 or any successor directive and the infrastructure for voting and protecting the integrity of elections; or,
Strategic assets or resources, including high-value property and information marked as sensitive or classified by the Federal Government.
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