What the numbers show about AI’s harms

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🗞️ Driving the news: AI-related harms are increasing, with a 50% rise in incidents from 2022 to 2024, continuing into 2025
• This surge highlights growing concerns about the technology’s negative impact, including disinformation, scams, and mental health issues

🔭 The context: The AI Incident Database, a crowdsourced platform tracking such incidents, shows a rise in AI-driven malicious activities, with deepfakes, scams, and psychological impacts becoming more frequent
• There is concern globally about the growing accessibility and sophistication of AI-generated misinformation

🌍 Why it matters for the planet: AI’s rapid development brings with it a range of societal and privacy risks, which, although not always immediate, add up over time
• The rise in AI-related harms threatens societal trust, erodes privacy, and exacerbates misinformation, undermining both individual security and public discourse

⏭️ What’s next: Efforts are underway to improve accountability with initiatives like Content Credentials, backed by major tech companies, to authenticate AI-generated content
• However, there's concern over the lack of universal adoption and challenges in tracking new AI-related harms

💬 One quote: “Societal issues, privacy issues, erosion of rights, disinformation and misinformation [are] less obvious when an individual incident happens, but they add up to quite significant harms overall.” - Simon Mylius, MIT FutureTech

📈 One stat: Reports of AI-generated misinformation and scams have increased 8-fold since 2022

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