AI Threat Map
The purpose of this list is to show how pervasive AI technology is, and the many risks it poses, or may pose in future. Not all of the issues are of interest to us as an organisation. We don't advocate policy. Our focus is on informing the the public about online risks that they can do something about.Category | Current | Near Future | Medium/Long-Term |
| Existential | AI Cyber Attacks | ||
| Existential | AI Military Targeting | ||
| Existential | Unconstrained Errors | ||
| Existential | Artificial General Intelligence? | ||
| Existential | Bio-Weapons | ||
| Existential | Superintelligence? | ||
| Cultural | "Zero-click" web site traffic reduction | ||
| Cultural | Bogus creativity | ||
| Cultural | Internet slop contamination | ||
| Cultural | Suspicion of all content/communication | ||
| Cultural | Abusive Advertising | ||
| Cultural | Cultural Flattening | ||
| Cultural | Degradation of Medical Care | ||
| Cultural | Diversion of Education Budgets to Tech Companies | ||
| Cultural | Internet Indexing Effects | ||
| Cultural | Loss of News and Information Sources | ||
| Cultural | Peer-on-Peer Surveillance | ||
| Cultural | Widespread Over-Attachment/Isolation? | ||
| Cultural | Cyber-attacks on National Infrastructuere | ||
| Cultural | Devaluation of Human Knowledge | ||
| Cultural | Model Collapse? | ||
| Cultural | Recursive Self-Improvement? | ||
| Psychology/Development | Cognitive Offload | ||
| Psychology/Development | Eliza effect | ||
| Psychology/Development | Excessive rate of change | ||
| Psychology/Development | Mental Health Crises | ||
| Psychology/Development | School/Uni Cheating | ||
| Psychology/Development | Suicide | ||
| Health/Environmental | Air pollution | ||
| Health/Environmental | Data centre water usage? | ||
| Health/Environmental | Exploitation of foreign workers | ||
| Health/Environmental | Power usage | ||
| Political/Civic | Anthropomorphisation | ||
| Political/Civic | Data insecurity | ||
| Political/Civic | Hyper-surveillance | ||
| Political/Civic | Increased Criminal Capabilities | ||
| Political/Civic | Liar's dividend | ||
| Political/Civic | Loss of accountability | ||
| Political/Civic | Non-consensual Pornography | ||
| Political/Civic | Regulatory Capture | ||
| Political/Civic | Elimination of Minorities From Sampling | ||
| Political/Civic | AI Personhood or "Rights" | ||
| Business/Economic | "AI washing" of redundancies | ||
| Business/Economic | Consumer exploitation | ||
| Business/Economic | Devaluation of online communications |
| CURRENT/Existential AI Cyber Attacks |
| CURRENT/Existential AI Military Targeting |
| CURRENT/Existential Unconstrained Errors |
| CURRENT/Cultural "Zero-click" web site traffic reduction |
| CURRENT/Cultural Bogus creativity |
| CURRENT/Cultural Internet slop contamination |
| CURRENT/Cultural Suspicion of all content/communication |
| CURRENT/Psychology/Development Cognitive Offload |
| CURRENT/Psychology/Development Eliza effect |
| CURRENT/Psychology/Development Excessive rate of change |
| CURRENT/Psychology/Development Mental Health Crises |
| CURRENT/Psychology/Development School/Uni Cheating |
| CURRENT/Psychology/Development Suicide |
| CURRENT/Health/Environmental Air pollution |
| CURRENT/Health/Environmental Data centre water usage? |
| CURRENT/Health/Environmental Exploitation of foreign workers |
| CURRENT/Health/Environmental Power usage |
| CURRENT/Political/Civic Anthropomorphisation |
| CURRENT/Political/Civic Data insecurity |
| CURRENT/Political/Civic Hyper-surveillance |
| CURRENT/Political/Civic Increased Criminal Capabilities |
| CURRENT/Political/Civic Liar's dividend |
| CURRENT/Political/Civic Loss of accountability |
| CURRENT/Political/Civic Non-consensual Pornography |
| CURRENT/Political/Civic Regulatory Capture |
| CURRENT/Business/Economic "AI washing" of redundancies |
| CURRENT/Business/Economic Consumer exploitation |
| CURRENT/Business/Economic Devaluation of online communications |
| NEAR FUTURE/Cultural Abusive Advertising |
| NEAR FUTURE/Cultural Cultural Flattening |
| NEAR FUTURE/Cultural Degradation of Medical Care |
| NEAR FUTURE/Cultural Diversion of Education Budgets to Tech Companies |
| NEAR FUTURE/Cultural Internet Indexing Effects |
| NEAR FUTURE/Cultural Loss of News and Information Sources |
| NEAR FUTURE/Cultural Peer-on-Peer Surveillance |
| NEAR FUTURE/Cultural Widespread Over-Attachment/Isolation? |
| NEAR FUTURE/Political/Civic Elimination of Minorities From Sampling |
| MEDIUM LONGTERM/Existential Artificial General Intelligence? |
| MEDIUM LONGTERM/Existential Bio-Weapons |
| MEDIUM LONGTERM/Existential Superintelligence? |
| MEDIUM LONGTERM/Cultural Cyber-attacks on National Infrastructuere |
| MEDIUM LONGTERM/Cultural Devaluation of Human Knowledge |
| MEDIUM LONGTERM/Cultural Model Collapse? |
| MEDIUM LONGTERM/Cultural Recursive Self-Improvement? |
| MEDIUM LONGTERM/Political/Civic AI Personhood or "Rights" |