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4. Malicious Actors & Misuse2 - Post-deployment

Dehumanisation/objectification

Dehumanisation/objectification - Use or misuse of a technology system to depict and/or treat people as not human, less than human, or as objects.

Source: MIT AI Risk Repositorymit949

ENTITY

1 - Human

INTENT

3 - Other

TIMING

2 - Post-deployment

Risk ID

mit949

Domain lineage

4. Malicious Actors & Misuse

223 mapped risks

4.3 > Fraud, scams, and targeted manipulation

Mitigation strategy

1. Establish comprehensive ethical governance frameworks and legislative safeguards that mandate the principle of Respect for Persons and Beneficence in the design, deployment, and use of technology systems, specifically prohibiting applications that classify, surveil, or treat individuals as non-human resources or objects (e.g., digital physiognomy). 2. Implement rigorous and continuous algorithmic auditing and accountability mechanisms to detect and mitigate systemically embedded biases within training data and models, preventing the amplification of dehumanizing narratives and ensuring equitable outcomes across diverse user groups. 3. Institute mandatory, large-scale educational programs, including media literacy and empathy training, designed to increase awareness and resilience against self- and other-dehumanization, simultaneously promoting organizational and intergroup "cultures of care" that explicitly reinforce human dignity over technological efficiency.