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The
AI Risk Matrix

MIT's AI Risk Repository catalogues more than 1,700 documented AI risks and sorts them into seven domains. This tool walks you through all seven for your own organisation: you rate the likelihood and the impact of each, and it plots your risk matrix with a rating and a next step for every domain.

7MIT Risk Domains
14Ratings
25Point Risk Scale
6Minutes

The Method

A risk matrix separates two questions that usually get mixed together: how likely a risk is, and how much damage it would do. Few organisations have applied one to AI, partly because there was no agreed list of what the risks actually are.

MIT's AI Risk Repository provides that list. First published by Slattery and colleagues in 2024 and updated since, it reviewed 74 risk frameworks and produced a single taxonomy of seven domains and 24 subdomains, covering discrimination, privacy, misinformation, misuse, and system failure among others.

You rate each domain twice: likelihood (1 to 5) and impact (1 to 5). Likelihood times impact gives a score out of 25, rated Low, Moderate, High, or Critical. The one-pager gives you a board-ready summary of all seven.

Domain 01
Discrimination & Toxicity
Domain 02
Privacy & Security
Domain 03
Misinformation
Domain 04
Malicious Actors & Misuse
Domain 05
Human-Computer Interaction
Domain 06
Socioeconomic & Environmental
Domain 07
AI System Safety & Failures

The Research Behind This Tool

A living database of more than 1,700 AI risks drawn from 74 frameworks, classified into seven domains and 24 subdomains. The domain structure of this tool follows it directly.

The peer-reviewed meta-review behind the repository, from MIT FutureTech and collaborators.

What the Report Contains

A score for every dimension, a median benchmark to compare against, a specific next step for each dimension, and a one-pager sized for a board pack. Your name and email open it, and there is no charge.