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Dependencias y consecuencias

AI sistemas depend on data, compute, energy, software supply chains and people, and they are increasingly embedded in services and infrastructures that others depend on. This page explains the causal, physical, economic, social and ecological links between AI and other systems, how failures travel along them and how the platform analyses them while stating what is uncertain. Concentration is the recurring theme.

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01What AI depends on

Upstream dependencies.

Computación

Chips, data centres and cloud

Training and running large models depends on concentrated chip supply and a few cloud providers. See Computación y energía.

Energía y agua

Physical resources

Data centres draw electricity and, for cooling, often water, linking AI growth to grids and local water stress.

Data and people

Inputs and labour

Training data, human feedback and annotation, often provided by low-paid workers, shape model behaviour.

02Seguimiento

Panorama del campo.

La pantalla que utilizaría un equipo para seguir esta materia: sus mediciones, estados y decisiones. Los nombres son ejemplos y los valores son ilustrativos.

Field overview: the screen’s structure, terms and states for AI and autonomous systems.Nombres de ejemplo y valores ilustrativos; un diseño, no un registro ni un sistema en vivo.
03What depends on AI

Downstream consequences.

  1. 01

    Public services

    Automated decisions in benefits, health, policing or migration affect rights directly. See IA y servicios públicos.

  2. 02

    Infrastructure and operations

    AI in grid management, logistics and industrial control can propagate errors into physical sistemasfinancieros. Vea Sistemas físicos autónomos.

  3. 03

    Seguridad

    AI changes the speed and scale of cyber attack and defence, and models are themselves targets. See IA y ciberseguridad.

  4. 04

    Finanzas

    Shared models and data can make institutions behave alike under stress, a concern examined in Riesgo de la IA y de los modelos financieros at The Global Risks Alliance (GRA).

  5. 05

    Information and trust

    Generated content at scale affects the information environment and trust in institutions.

04How failures travel

Common modes and correlated errors.

Because many applications are built on the same foundation models, a flaw or vulnerability can appear simultaneously across sectors that otherwise share little. An update by one provider can change behaviour in thousands of downstream sistemas. Outages at a major cloud region can stop services that never knew they shared it.

Social effects travel more slowly but last longer. Errors concentrated on particular groups erode trust, and changes in work and skills reshape labour markets over years. See Efectos laborales y sociales.

05Método

How dependencies are analysed.

The platform maps dependencies using system analysis, supply-chain mapping and incident studies, with probabilidad y estadística to express uncertainty and cybersecurity and cryptography for threat modelling. A dependency map is not a forecast: it shows how sistemas are connected and how failure could travel, and each link carries its evidence label. Governance responses are convened by Gobernanza de la IA y lo digital at The Global Risks Forum (GRF).

Véase métodos e incertidumbre.

06Preguntas

Preguntas y respuestas.

Why does concentration matter?
When many users depend on the same models, chips or cloud services, a single failure, vulnerability or policy change can affect them all at once.
How significant is AI’s energy use?
It is growing and locally significant where data centres cluster. Estimates vary widely with assumptions, so the platform reports ranges with their sources rather than single figures.
Are specific providers’ weaknesses published?
Not in a way that would enable harm. Vulnerabilities follow responsible disclosure, and public outputs describe classes of risk.
Who governs these dependencies?
Competent authorities and operators in each sector, under their own rules. Governance dialogue is convened through Gobernanza de la IA y lo digital at The Global Risks Forum (GRF); the platform supplies the evidence.
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