This report brings together 100 experts on artificial intelligence (AI) to create a shared international understanding of risks from advanced AI and how they can be mitigated. It finds a wide range of trajectories for the future of general-purpose AI are possible, and much will depend on how societies and governments act.

The report is concerned with AI risks and AI safety and focuses on identifying these risks and evaluating methods for mitigating them. It summarises the scientific evidence on three core questions.

1. What can general-purpose AI do?
2. What are risks associated with general-purpose AI?
3. What mitigation techniques are there against these risks?

Key findings

• The capabilities of general-purpose AI, the type of AI that this report focuses on, have increased rapidly in recent years and have improved further in recent months.
• The pace of advances in AI capabilities may remain high or even accelerate.
• Several harms from general-purpose AI are already well established. These include scams, non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII) and child sexual abuse material (CSAM), model outputs that are biased against certain groups of people or certain opinions, reliability issues, and privacy violations.
• As general-purpose AI becomes more capable, evidence of additional risks is gradually emerging.
• While this report is concerned with AI risks and AI safety, AI also offers many potential benefits for people, businesses, and society.
• People around the world will only be able to fully enjoy the potential benefits of general-purpose AI safely if its risks are appropriately managed.
• Increasingly capable AI agents – general-purpose AI systems that can autonomously act, plan, and delegate to achieve goals – will likely present new, significant challenges for risk management.