Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming industries, economies, and daily life, but it also brings risks like bias, privacy concerns, and societal manipulation. These issues stem from AI’s statistical nature, unprecedented scalability, and market incentives that don’t always align with public well-being. As regulation continues to lag behind AI innovation, deploying AI systems into high-risk applications at scale poses a threat to individual rights, economic fairness, social cohesion, and democratic stability.

This white paper explores industries with incentives and risks that are well-aligned to positive AI outcomes. We propose industrial applications as ideal sandboxes for exploring how to reap the benefits of AI without imposing societal-level risks.
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By identifying lower-risk industries for AI deployment, we lay out Fathom5's roadmap to develop AI in applications that strengthen societal resilience and sustainability, ensuring AI’s benefits outweigh its harms.