"There are many AI risks," said Peter Slattery, a research scientist with MIT FutureTech and one of the study's co-authors. Part of the goal of the study was to identify the most likely areas of risks to hopefully prompt strategies to mitigate the danger. The study defined catastrophic harm as having the "potential for more than 1 million deaths, more than $100 billion in financial losses, or comparable civilizational-scale intangible damages." With finance, the worry revolved around the potential for fraud, market manipulation, privacy breaches and other potential system failures. "We're saying these are the things that experts think are worth paying attention to now."