Table 2 SciTech risk dyads-examples
From: Dyadic risk mechanisms–a nomenclature for 36 proto-cascading effects determining humanity’s future
Dyad | Example | Year reported |
|---|---|---|
T2 | Experts both applaud and fear the consequences of AI in interaction with synthetic biology as they converge [88] | 2020 |
TechEcon | The technological risks of the digital economy [23], including technology-driven systemic risks affecting the financial sector [46], such as cybersecurity threats | 2018 |
TechGov | Technological risk and policy preferences lead some workers to prefer slowing down technological change to avoid or defer automation risk [48] | 2022 |
TechSoc | (a) Problematic risk-taking behaviors involving emerging technologies (e.g., online gambling and gaming, online sexual behaviors, and oversharing of personal information via social networking sites), [117]. (b) AI letter of 2023 noting severe risks to society from AI and calling for a pause [78] | 2020 |
TechNat | Energy technology’s emission challenges began with the Industrial Revolution [5] | 2001 |
TechHealth | (a) Concerns that AI could spark the next pandemic [98]. (b) Medical technologies (imaging, blood tests) shape the experience of illness, reveal risk factors for developing diseases, and alter social norms for vulnerability, change perceived symptoms, or what counts as being healthy or ill [57] | 2018 |