What are the risks from Artificial Intelligence?

A comprehensive living database of over 1000 AI risks categorized by their cause and risk domain

What is the AI Risk Repository?

The AI Risk Repository has three parts:

  • The AI Risk Database captures 1000+ risks extracted from 56 existing frameworks and classifications of AI risks
  • The Causal Taxonomy of AI Risks classifies how, when, and why these risks occur
  • The Domain Taxonomy of AI Risks classifies these risks into 7 domains (e.g., “Misinformation”) and 23 subdomains (e.g., “False or misleading information”)

How can I use the Repository?

The AI Risk Repository provides:

  • An accessible overview of threats from AI
  • A regularly updated source of information about new risks and research
  • A common frame of reference for researchers, developers, businesses, evaluators, auditors, policymakers, and regulators
  • A resource to help develop research, curricula, audits, and policy
  • An easy way to find relevant risks and research

AI Risk Database

The AI Risk Database links each risk to the source information (paper title, authors), supporting evidence (quotes, page numbers), and to our Causal and Domain Taxonomies. You can copy it on Google Sheets, or OneDrive. Watch our explainer video below.

Search below if you want to explore the risks extracted into our database. This search looks for exact text matches in one field: "Description". It returns information for four fields: "QuickRef", "Risk category", "Risk subcategory", and "Description". For example, try searching for "privacy" to see all risk descriptions which mention this term.

Causal Taxonomy of AI Risks

The Causal Taxonomy of AI risks classifies how, when, and why an AI risk occurs.

Search below if you want to explore how we group risks by cause in our database. This search looks for exact text matches in three fields: "Entity", "Intention" and "Timing". It returns information for seven fields: "QuickRef", "Risk category", "Risk subcategory", "Description", "Entity", "Intent", and "Timing". For instance, try searching for "Pre-deployment" to see all risks of this category.

Domain Taxonomy of AI Risks

The Domain Taxonomy of AI Risks classifies risks from AI into seven domains and 23 subdomains.

Search below if you want to explore how we group risks by domain. This search looks for exact text matches in two fields: "Domain" and "Subdomain". It returns information for six fields: "QuickRef", "Risk category", "Risk subcategory", "Description", "Domain" and "Subdomain". For instance, try searching for "Misinformation" to see all risks categorized in this domain.

How to use the AI Risk Repository

We provide examples of use cases for some key audiences below.

Frequently Asked Questions

Our Team

Acknowledgments

Feedback and useful input: Anka Reuel, Michael Aird, Greg Sadler, Matthjis Maas, Shahar Avin, Taniel Yusef, Elizabeth Cooper, Dane Sherburn, Noemi Dreksler, Uma Kalkar, CSER, GovAI, Nathan Sherburn, Andrew Lucas, Jacinto Estima, Kevin Klyman, Bernd W. Wirtz, Andrew Critch, Lambert Hogenhout, Zhexin Zhang, Ian Eisenberg, Stuart Russell, and Samuel Salzer.

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