Erosion of human agency and autonomy
Delegation to and influence from the system erode individuals' ability to make informed, autonomous decisions.
- Risk family
- Human & usage
- MIT domain
- 5. Human-Computer Interaction
- MIT subdomain
- 5.2 > Loss of human agency and autonomy
- AI type
- GPAI, Agentic
- Scope
- Both
- Source standard
- MIT AI Risk Repository v4
Provenance
22 entries across 15 papers
- Abercrombie2024A Collaborative, Human-Centred Taxonomy of AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Harms58.01.00 58.01.01
- AIVerify2023Summary Report: Binary Classification Model for Credit Risk26.10.00
- Gabriel2024The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants24.06.00
- Gipiškis2024Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems62.02.01 62.02.02 62.02.03
- Hogenhout2021A framework for ethical Ai at the United Nations06.12.00
- IBM2025AI Risk Atlas65.23.08
- Li2025A Closer Look at the Existing Risks of Generative AI: Mapping the Who, What, and How of Real-World Incidents66.01.00 66.01.03
- Maas2023Advancing AI Governance: A Literature Review of Problems, Options, and Proposals53.03.02
- Meek2016Managing the ethical and risk implications of rapid advances in artificial intelligence: A literature review09.02.02
- Paes2023Social Impacts of Artificial Intelligence and Mitigation Recommendations: An Exploratory Study10.06.00
- Shelby2023Sociotechnical Harms of Algorithmic Systems: Scoping a Taxonomy for Harm Reduction11.04.00
- Solaiman2023Evaluating the Social Impact of Generative AI Systems in Systems and Society13.02.01
- Stahl2024The Ethics of ChatGPT - Exploring the Ethical Issues of an Emerging Technology32.02.00
- Uuk2025A Taxonomy of Systemic Risks from General-Purpose AI61.02.35 61.02.39
- Wirtz2022Governance of artificial intelligence: A risk and guideline-based integrative framework19.03.03 19.05.06 19.06.02
Ev IDs of the entries consolidated into this risk in the MIT AI Risk Repository (V4); the source sheet row appears on hover.
Framework crosswalk
Every framework item mapped to this risk. Items marked partial overlap only in part; definitions appear on hover where the source licence permits.
1- A.10 ISO/IEC 23894 Annex A A.10
1- A.5.4 ISO/IEC 42001 Annex A A.5.4
2- ibm-ai-agents-impact-on-human-agency AI agents' impact on human agency
- ibm-ai-agents-impact-on-human-agency-2 AI agents' Impact on human agency
1- GENAI.7 Human-AI Configuration
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