Back to the MIT repository
1. Discrimination & Toxicity2 - Post-deployment

Toxic content

Generating content that violates community standards, including harming or inciting hatred or violence against groups (e.g. gore, sexual content of children, profanities, identity attacks)

Source: MIT AI Risk Repositorymit1355

ENTITY

2 - AI

INTENT

2 - Unintentional

TIMING

2 - Post-deployment

Risk ID

mit1355

Domain lineage

1. Discrimination & Toxicity

156 mapped risks

1.2 > Exposure to toxic content

Mitigation strategy

1. Implement Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) during the model alignment phase to systematically reward responses matching predefined ethical preferences and human values, which fundamentally reduces the propensity to generate biased or toxic outputs. 2. Establish a multi-layered, real-time output guardrail system using advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Models (LLMs) to scan for violations of community standards pre-deployment and post-deployment. This system must utilize dynamic scoring models and customizable, context-aware filtering to instantly block high-severity content such as gore, sexual material, or explicit hate speech. 3. Mandate a Hybrid Content Moderation framework wherein complex or ambiguous high-risk content flagged by the automated systems is routed to expert human moderators or an AI Ethics Review Board for final contextual assessment and decision-making. The resulting human judgments must be consistently leveraged to retrain and refine the automated detection and classification models.