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"General-purpose AI deployed in power grid management, water treatment facilities, telecommunications networks, or transportation coordination systems could misinterpret operational data, fail to anticipate cascading failure modes, or make control decisions that destabilize interconnected infrastructure networks. Infrastructure failures could result in widespread blackouts, contaminated water supplies, communications breakdowns, and the collapse of essential services supporting hundreds of thousands of people."
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Source
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Included resource
Frontier AI Risk Management Framework (v1.0)
Original source
MIT AI Risk Repository
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