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Pedro Salazar and other experts highlight how AI systems are enabling unprecedented concentration of power, with AI-operated drones and surveillance tools causing deaths, human rights violations, and manipulation of public opinion. These developments, normalized by state actors, are undermining democracy and freedoms worldwide, echoing Putin's prediction of AI dominance.[AI generated]
Why's our monitor labelling this an incident or hazard?
The article explicitly mentions AI systems being used in lethal military operations (e.g., AI-operated drones killing people), which directly causes injury and death, fulfilling the criteria for harm to persons. It also discusses the use of AI in surveillance, control, and manipulation of public opinion, which constitutes violations of human rights and harm to communities. The normalization of these practices and the involvement of state actors in authorizing AI-enabled violence further confirm the direct or indirect causation of harm by AI systems. Hence, this is an AI Incident rather than a hazard or complementary information, as the harms are ongoing and realized.[AI generated]