01
MisalignmentLoss of control
AI systems acting outside intended objectives once deployed at scale.
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Roman Yampolskiy
Univ. of Louisville
Wendell Wallach
Yale Center for Bioethics
Alan Winfield
Bristol Robotics Lab / IEEE
Raja Chatila
Sorbonne / IEEE
Risto Miikkulainen
UT Austin / Cognizant
Toby Walsh
UNSW Sydney
John C. Havens
IEEE Global Initiative
Alex Polyakov
Adversa AI
Olaf Witkowski
Cross Labs
Kathleen Richardson
De Montfort University
The top 10 existential threats of AI.
Each card represents one of the 10 existential threats Better Societies works to address.
02
MisuseAutonomous weapons
AI-driven weapons systems making lethal decisions without human review.
03
MisuseAI-enabled bioweapons
AI lowering the technical barrier to creating biological threats.
04
MisuseAI cyber warfare
AI-augmented offensive cyber capabilities targeting critical systems.
05
SystemicMass unemployment
Rapid labor displacement outpacing economic adjustment mechanisms.
06
ConcentrationAI surveillance
AI scaling state and corporate surveillance beyond historical limits.
07
MisinformationAI misinformation
Generated content eroding public information integrity and trust.
08
MisalignmentRecursive self-improvement
AI systems improving their own capabilities faster than oversight can react.
09
SystemicAI-accelerated climate
Compute demand and AI-driven extraction worsening environmental trajectories.
10
MisuseAI space-based threats
AI-controlled space assets introducing new categories of strategic risk.
Source: Slattery et al. The AI Risk Repository, arxiv:2408.12622. Categories drawn from the MIT Domain Taxonomy.
Capability rises faster than safety can catch up.
AI capability follows a steep log curve. Safety investment is a slow linear rise. The widening gap (in red) is the Better Societies thesis. Every year the gap widens, the existential threat from misalignment, misuse, and concentration goes up.
- AI capability
- AI safety investment
- Widening gap
Sources: Epoch AI compute trends, METR task-length scaling, Anthropic RSP, Our World in Data AI investment series.
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