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No one knows every complication. Naming the ones that are known, preparing for them, and proceeding with care is what allows the work to go forward.
Artificial intelligence has no equivalent of the surgical atlas: the long record of named complications, graded by severity, reviewed in conference, disclosed before consent. The knowledge exists, but mostly for specialists. Concern grows without understanding. In institutions, unmapped risk becomes a veto. This reference exists so that people can say yes with open eyes.
The public address of this site is aiconcerns.org.
How the register is graded
Each of the 1000 items carries a severity (1–5), a likelihood (1–5), a time horizon, and a composite risk score (severity × likelihood). Mean score 14.75. The scoring is rules-based over the taxonomy, calibrated against the MIT AI Incident Tracker, NIST AI 600-1, and the EU AI Act’s high-risk classifications. It is a global estimate, not a substitute for an organization-specific assessment.
- MIT AI Risk Repository & Incident Tracker
- NIST AI RMF
- NIST AI 600-1
- EU AI Act
- UK International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI
- OECD AI Principles
Principles that govern the voice
- Truthfulness before alarm. Claims are sourced. Uncertainty is stated as such.
- Proportion. The grave and the manageable are both treated with respect.
- Hope grounded in capability. Naming a complication is the beginning of addressing it.
- Service without favour. The parent and the CISO are equally served.
- Learning as the outcome. Success is capacity to act well, not visits.
Virtues and questions
Beside a technical fact the map offers a principle and a question. Trustworthiness, listening, hope, justice, service, cooperation: held as inquiry, not as a verdict. The questions are written to reorient a frame of reference, not to prosecute a person. Reflection describes what happened; it does not accuse.
Relationship to AI Translation
AI Concerns is a standalone public brand, built in partnership with the Institute for AI Translation. The register is the complications half of AI Translation: the discipline of fitting AI to the people, organizations, technology, values, and constraints of a place.