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Massachusetts Institute of Technology AI Risk Repository

A collection of AI risks classified by frameworks and seven domains

The Explain card

Plain English
The MIT AI Risk Repository is a curated collection of AI risks drawn from published frameworks, classified by cause and by seven risk domains, giving a common reference map of what can go wrong.
Example
Drafting an AI governance policy, a consultant uses the repository to check which of the seven domains, from privacy and security to misinformation, the client's risk register has missed.
Why it matters
Every framework slices AI risk differently. The repository consolidates them so defenders can check coverage and avoid the blind spots that come from using only one lens.
Hook
One shelf holding every AI risk catalog, cross-indexed.

Word knowledge

How the word is built, where it came from, and what it sits beside in memory.

In a sentence

During model review, the safety team used the Massachusetts Institute of Technology AI Risk Repository to standardize labels across red-team findings and incident reports.

Why these words
  • Massachusetts Massachusett, an Indigenous Algonquian name associated with the Great Blue Hill region begins the institution's official proper name
  • Institute Latin instituere, establish or instruct identifies the institution as an organization devoted to study and research
  • of Old English of, from or away from links the organization type to its field
  • Technology Greek tekhnologia, systematic treatment of an art or craft completes the institution's official proper name
  • AI initialism of artificial intelligence, a phrase introduced in 1955 specifies the technical field
  • Risk French risque, danger or possibility of loss specifies the material being examined
  • Repository Latin repositorium, a place for storing things serves as the head noun of the full phrase
Where it came from
Origin
an English project title formed from the institutional name Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the initialism AI, and the compound AI risk repository
Entered the language
2024
What changed
The established institutional name became an attributive label, while AI narrowed risk and repository supplied the phrase's head noun.
How it is spelled
Pattern
The words in the proper institutional name begin with capital letters.
Pattern
AI remains fully capitalized as an initialism.
Pattern
Repository keeps the common noun ending -ory.
Breaks the pattern
Massachusetts retains a historically derived spelling whose final s is pronounced differently from the preceding ss.

Spelled like

  • laboratory
  • directory
  • observatory
Broken into chunks
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • California Institute of Technology
    • Georgia Institute of Technology
  • AI risk
    • AI safety
    • AI governance
  • repository
    • depository
    • directory
What it sits beside

Same subject

  • AI safety
  • risk taxonomy
  • model evaluation
  • incident reporting

Same shape

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology AI Risk Management Framework
  • Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development AI Incidents Monitor

AI risk resources

institutional initialisms

  • MIT
  • NIST
  • OECD

Where it sits in the deck

Phase 14: Incident Response, Evaluation, and Knowledge Bases

When detection fires, teams need structured response plans, scoring frameworks, and curated knowledge bases to triage, measure, and learn from AI security events.

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