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Structured analysis to identify, characterize, and prioritize potential harms and risks.
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A tool used to assess the potential impacts of a technology or project
Reasoning
Structured analysis identifying and characterizing potential harms before deployment.
Risk Taxonomy
A way to categorise and organise risks across multiple dimensions
2.2.1 Risk AssessmentEngagement with Relevant Experts and Communities
Domain experts, users, and impacted communities have unique insights into likely risks
2.2.1 Risk AssessmentDelphi Method
A group decision-making technique that uses a series of questionnaires to gather consensus from a panel of experts
2.2.1 Risk AssessmentThreat Modelling
A process to identify threats and vulnerabilities to a system
2.2.1 Risk AssessmentScenario Analysis
Developing plausible future scenarios and analysing how risks materialise
2.2.1 Risk AssessmentAudits
A formal review of an organisation’s compliance with standards, policies, and procedures, typically carried out by an external party
2.2.3 Auditing & ComplianceInternational AI Safety Report
Bengio, Yoshua; Mindermann, Sören; Privitera, Daniel; Besiroglu, Tamay; Bommasani, Rishi; Casper, Stephen; Choi, Yejin; Fox, Phillips; Garfinkel, Ben; Goldfarb, David A.; Heidari, Hoda; Ho, Anson; Kapoor, Sayash; Khalatbari, Leila; Longpre, Shayne; Manning, Sam; Mavroudis, Vasilios; Mazeika, Mantas; Michael, Julian; Newman, Jessica; Ng, TP; Okolo, Chinasa T.; Raji, Deborah; Sastry, Girish; Seger, Elizabeth; Skeadas, Theodora; South, Tobin; Strubell, Emma; Tramèr, Florian; Velasco, Luis; Wheeler, Nicole; Acemoglu, Daron; Adekanmbi, Olubayo; Dalrymple, David; Dietterich, Thomas G.; Felten, Edward W.; Fung, Pascale; Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Heintz, F.; Hinton, Geoffrey E.; Jennings, Nicholas R.; Krause, Andreas; Leavy, Susan; Liang, Percy; Ludermir, Teresa; Marda, Vidushi; Margetts, Helen; McDermid, John; Munga, Jane; Narayanan, Arvind; Nelson, Alondra; Neppel, Clara; Oh, Alice; Ramchurn, Sarvapali D.; Russell, Stuart; Schaake, Marietje; Schölkopf, Bernhard; Song, Dawn; Soto, Álvaro; Tiedrich, Lee; Varoquaux, Gaël; Yao, Andrew I.; Zhang, Ya-Qin; Albalawi, Fahad; Alserkal, Marwan; Ajala, Oluremi N.; Avrin, Guillaume; Busch, Christoph; de Carvalho, André C. P. L. F.; Fox, B. W.; Gill, A. S.; Hatip, Ahmet; Heikkilä, J. K.; Jolly, Gill; Katzir, Ziv; Kitano, Hiroaki; Kruger, Adèle; Johnson, Chris A.; Khan, Saif; Lee, Kyoung Mu; Ligot, Dominic Vincent; Molchanovskyi, Oleksii; Monti, Andrea; Mwamanzi, Nusu; Nemer, Mona; Oliver, Nuria; Portillo, José; Ravindran, Balaraman; Pezoa Rivera, Raquel; Riza, Hammam; Rugege, Crystal; Seoighe, Ciarán; Sheehan, Katherine M.; Sheikh, Haroon; Wong, David; Zeng, Yi (2025)
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is progressing rapidly, and companies are shifting their focus to developing generalist AI systems that can autonomously act and pursue goals. Increases in capabilities and autonomy may soon massively amplify AI’s impact, with risks that include large-scale social harms, malicious uses, and an irreversible loss of human control over autonomous AI systems. Although researchers have warned of extreme risks from AI1, there is a lack of consensus about how exactly such risk arise, and how to manage them. Society’s response, despite promising first steps, is incommensurate with the possibility of rapid, transformative progress that is expected by many experts. AI safety research is lagging. Present governance initiatives lack the mechanisms and institutions to prevent misuse and recklessness, and barely address autonomous systems. In this short consensus paper, we describe extreme risks from upcoming, advanced AI systems. Drawing on lessons learned from other safety-critical technologies, we then outline a comprehensive plan combining technical research and development (R&D) with proactive, adaptive governance mechanisms for a more commensurate preparation.
Other (outside lifecycle)
Outside the standard AI system lifecycle
Governance Actor
Regulator, standards body, or oversight entity shaping AI policy
Measure
Quantifying, testing, and monitoring identified AI risks
