{"attribution":{"source":"MIT AI Risk Repository, Domain Taxonomy of AI Risks v1 (MIT AI Risk Initiative)","license":"CC BY 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","citation":"Slattery, P., Saeri, A. K., Grundy, E. A. C., Graham, J., Noetel, M., Uuk, R., Dao, J., Pour, S., Casper, S., & Thompson, N. (2025). The AI Risk Repository: A comprehensive meta-review, database, and taxonomy of risks from artificial intelligence. arXiv:2408.12622."},"exported_at":"2026-09-11"}
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Non-compliance can lead to legal penalties, reputation damage, and loss of trust.While other risks in our taxonomy apply to system developers, users, and broader society, this risk is generally restricted to the former two groups.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":6,"subdomain":"6.5"},{"ev_id":"12.03.00","quick_ref":"Sherman2023","paper_title":"AI Risk Profiles: A Standards Proposal for Pre-Deployment AI Risk Disclosures","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Environmental & Societal Impact","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"Addresses AI's broader societal effects, including labor displacement, mental health impacts, and issues from manipulative technologies like deepfakes. Additionally, it considers AI's environmental footprint, balancing resource strain and training-related carbon emissions against AI's potential to help address environmental problems.\"","entity":"Other","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":6,"subdomain":"6.0"},{"ev_id":"12.04.00","quick_ref":"Sherman2023","paper_title":"AI Risk Profiles: A Standards Proposal for Pre-Deployment AI Risk Disclosures","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Explainability & Transparency","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"The feasibility of understanding and interpreting an AI system's decisions and actions, and the openness of the developer about the data used, algorithms employed, and decisions made. Lack of these elements can create risks of misuse, misinterpretation, and lack of accountability.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Other","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.4"},{"ev_id":"12.05.00","quick_ref":"Sherman2023","paper_title":"AI Risk Profiles: A Standards Proposal for Pre-Deployment AI Risk Disclosures","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Fairness & Bias","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"The potential for AI systems to make decisions that systematically disadvantage certain groups or individuals. Bias can stem from training data, algorithmic design, or deployment practices, leading to unfair outcomes and possible legal ramifications.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Other","domain":1,"subdomain":"1.1"},{"ev_id":"12.06.00","quick_ref":"Sherman2023","paper_title":"AI Risk Profiles: A Standards Proposal for Pre-Deployment AI Risk Disclosures","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Long-term & Existential Risk","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"The speculative potential for future advanced AI systems to harm human civilization, either through misuse or due to challenges in aligning AI objectives with human values.\"","entity":"Other","intent":"Other","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.1"},{"ev_id":"12.07.00","quick_ref":"Sherman2023","paper_title":"AI Risk Profiles: A Standards Proposal for Pre-Deployment AI Risk Disclosures","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Performance & Robustness","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"The AI system's ability to fulfill its intended purpose and its resilience to perturbations, and unusual or adverse inputs. Failures of performance are fundamental to the AI system's correct functioning. Failures of robustness can lead to severe consequences.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":7,"subdomain":"7.3"},{"ev_id":"12.08.00","quick_ref":"Sherman2023","paper_title":"AI Risk Profiles: A Standards Proposal for Pre-Deployment AI Risk Disclosures","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Privacy","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"The potential for the AI system to infringe upon individuals' rights to privacy, through the data it collects, how it processes that data, or the conclusions it draws.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Other","timing":"Other","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.1"},{"ev_id":"12.09.00","quick_ref":"Sherman2023","paper_title":"AI Risk Profiles: A Standards Proposal for Pre-Deployment AI Risk Disclosures","level":"Risk Category","risk_category":"Security","risk_subcategory":null,"description":"\"Encompasses vulnerabilities in AI systems that compromise their integrity, availability, or confidentiality. Security breaches could result in significant harm, ranging from flawed decision-making to data leaks. Of special concern is leakage of AI model weights, which could exacerbate other risk areas.\"","entity":"AI","intent":"Unintentional","timing":"Post-deployment","domain":2,"subdomain":"2.2"}]}