Social Impacts of Artificial Intelligence and Mitigation Recommendations: An Exploratory Study

January 3, 2025

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This week we spotlight the tenth risk framework included in the AI Risk Repository: 

Paes, V. M., Silveira, F. F., & Akkari, A. C. S. (2023). Social impacts of artificial intelligence and mitigation recommendations: An exploratory study. In Proceedings of the 7th Brazilian Technology Symposium (BTSym’21) (pp. 521–528). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04435-9_54

This study aimed to systematically review the main social impacts of Artificial Intelligence, as well as the most common strategies to mitigate impacts. 

In total, the authors included and extracted impacts from 175 articles, identifying 9 main categories of social impact from AI: 

  • Bias and discrimination 
  • Risk of Injury 
  • Data Breach/Privacy & Liberty 
  • Usurpations of jobs by automation 
  • Lack of transparency 
  • Reduced Autonomy/Responsibility 
  • Injustice 
  • Over-dependent on technology 
  • Environmental impacts 

These categories were determined according to themes that were most frequently mentioned in the included articles. The three most mentioned categories of social impact were Bias and Discrimination (26%), Risk of Injury (16%) and Data Breach/Privacy and Liberty (15%). 

Key features of the framework and associated paper:

Reviews and summarises social impacts identified in the AI literature based on how frequently they are discussed

Reviews and summarises recommended mitigation strategies from the AI literature based on how frequently they are discussed

Classifies included papers according to the domain of AI use (e.g., health, education, society, military etc.)

  • The areas of technology (28%), society (20%), and industry (10%) are among the most researched 

📄 Disclaimer

This summary highlights a paper included in the MIT AI Risk Repository. We did not author the paper and credit goes to Paes, V. M., Silveira, F. F., Akkari, A. C. S. (2022). For the full details, please refer to the original publication: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04435-9_54

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