Cultural Alignment

AI Risk Families

AI risk taxonomy

AI Risk Families

A high-level categorization of ways that capable AI systems can create harm, each grounded in recognizable scenes from pop culture.

05 records

  1. 01

    Accidents

    Risks from AI systems causing unintended harm when they fail, behave unpredictably, or produce unreliable results.

    96 scenarios
  2. 02

    Malicious use

    Risks from people deliberately using AI to cause harm.

    101 scenarios
  3. 03

    Misalignment

    Risks from AI systems pursuing goals or behaving in ways that conflict with human intentions or values.

    143 scenarios
  4. 04

    Security

    Risks from weak security or oversight leaving AI systems vulnerable to hacking, theft, manipulation, or irresponsible use.

    181 scenarios
  5. 05

    Systemic

    Risks from widespread AI adoption concentrating power, deepening inequality, or causing failures that spread across society.

    155 scenarios