Human dignity/respect
Discrepancies between caste/status based on intelligence may lead to undignified parts of the society—e.g., humans—who are surpassed in intelligence by AI
ENTITY
3 - Other
INTENT
3 - Other
TIMING
2 - Post-deployment
Risk ID
mit110
Domain lineage
5. Human-Computer Interaction
5.2 > Loss of human agency and autonomy
Mitigation strategy
1. Establish and enforce a globally aligned, human-centered AI governance framework, anchored in international human rights and legal principles, that explicitly affirms the intrinsic and non-derogable moral worth and dignity of all individuals, irrespective of AI capabilities or performance metrics. 2. Institute mandatory human oversight and final human review for all AI-assisted decisions that have significant individual or societal impact (e.g., in employment, justice, and social assistance), thereby legally preserving human agency and professional responsibility over algorithmic outputs. 3. Develop and deploy AI systems using methodologies that incorporate fairness constraints and continuous auditing specifically to detect and mitigate social stratification and discriminatory outcomes that could assign or reinforce a negative status to groups based on perceived or actual cognitive inferiority relative to the AI.