AIPolicyTracker

MIT AI Risk Repository · domain 6: Socioeconomic & Environmental

6.5 Governance failure

Inadequate regulatory frameworks and oversight mechanisms failing to keep pace with AI development, leading to ineffective governance and the inability to manage AI risks appropriately.

Risk entries
61
Frameworks citing it
12
Recorded incidents
3
Incidents since 2020
3
Causal entity (risk entries)
Causal entity (risk entries) 31 0 Human: 31 Human 31 Other: 16 Other 16 AI: 11 AI 11 Not coded: 3 Not coded 3
Causal entity (risk entries)
LabelValue
Human31
Other16
AI11
Not coded3
Intent (risk entries)
Intent (risk entries) 31 0 Unintentional: 31 Unintentional 31 Other: 25 Other 25 Not coded: 3 Not coded 3 Intentional: 2 Intentional 2
Intent (risk entries)
LabelValue
Unintentional31
Other25
Not coded3
Intentional2
Timing (risk entries)
Timing (risk entries) 23 0 Pre-deployment: 23 Pre-deployment 23 Other: 19 Other 19 Post-deployment: 16 Post-deployment 16 Not coded: 3 Not coded 3
Timing (risk entries)
LabelValue
Pre-deployment23
Other19
Post-deployment16
Not coded3
Recorded incidents per yearIncident date; current year partial
Recorded incidents per year 2 0 2022: 1 2022 1 2026: 2 2026 2
Recorded incidents per year
LabelValue
20221
20262
Entries by levelRisk categories, subcategories and additional evidence coded to this subdomain
Entries by level 49 0 Risk Category: 12 Risk Category 12 Risk Sub-Category: 49 Risk Sub-Category 49
Entries by level
LabelValue
Risk Category12
Risk Sub-Category49
  • Resistance to international law

    "AI models and systems may prove difficult to regulate or control under international law."

    A Taxonomy of Systemic Risks from General-Purpose AI (Uuk2025) · Other · Other · Other

  • Unpredictability of AI development trajectory

    "The unpredictable trajectory of AI development complicates governance and risk management."

    A Taxonomy of Systemic Risks from General-Purpose AI (Uuk2025) · Other · Other · Other

  • AI Law and Regulation

    "This area strongly focuses on the control of AI by means of mechanisms like laws, standards or norms that are already established for different technological applications. Here, there are some challe...

    The Dark Sides of Artificial Intelligence: An Integrated AI Governance Framework for Public Administration (Wirtz2020) · Human · Intentional · Post-deployment

  • Governance of autonomous intelligence systems

    "Governance of autonomous intelligence systemaddresses the question of how to control autonomous systems in general. Since nowadays it is very difficult to conceive automated decisions based on AI, th...

    The Dark Sides of Artificial Intelligence: An Integrated AI Governance Framework for Public Administration (Wirtz2020) · Other · Other · Post-deployment

  • Responsibility and accountability

    "The challenge of responsibility and accountability is an important concept for the process of governance and regulation. It addresses the question of who is to be held legally responsible for the act...

    The Dark Sides of Artificial Intelligence: An Integrated AI Governance Framework for Public Administration (Wirtz2020) · Other · Other · Other

  • Lack of AI experts with comprehensive AI knowledge

    Governance of artificial intelligence: A risk and guideline-based integrative framework (Wirtz2022) · Human · Unintentional · Other

  • Lack of knowledge and social acceptance regarding AI

    Governance of artificial intelligence: A risk and guideline-based integrative framework (Wirtz2022) · Not coded · Not coded · Not coded

  • Legal AI Risks

    "Legal and regulatory risks comprise in particular the unclear definition of responsibilities and accountability in case of AI failures and autonomous decisions with negative impacts (Reed, 2018; Sche...

    Governance of artificial intelligence: A risk and guideline-based integrative framework (Wirtz2022) · Other · Unintentional · Other

  • Unclear definition of responsibilities and accountability for AI judgments and their consequences

    Governance of artificial intelligence: A risk and guideline-based integrative framework (Wirtz2022) · AI · Unintentional · Post-deployment

  • Great scope and ubiquity of AI make appropriate governance difficult, coverage of governance scope almost impossibl

    Governance of artificial intelligence: A risk and guideline-based integrative framework (Wirtz2022) · Other · Unintentional · Other

  • Capturing future AI development and their threats with appropriate mechanism

    Governance of artificial intelligence: A risk and guideline-based integrative framework (Wirtz2022) · Not coded · Not coded · Not coded