# Contested concept: risk

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- **Contestedness**: criterion
- **Diagnosis**: Both sides want to reduce risk and count different things as risk.
- **Canonical**: `/concept/risk` (data: `/concept/risk.json`)

## Senses in use
- **harm from AI capability: misuse, autonomous failure, catastrophe** — used in 3 claim(s)
- **harm from the governance of AI: capture, lock-in, monoculture, dependency** — used in 3 claim(s)

## Claims using this term
- [Concentrated control over AI is a high-value control point: whoever captures, coerces or corrupts it gains disproportionate leverage over e…](/claim/claim_aig_capture.md) _(sense: harm from the governance of AI: capture, lock-in, monoculture, dependency)_
- [Governance risk is endogenous: the institutions, controls and power structures created to manage AI are themselves a source of severe risk.](/claim/claim_aig_endogenous.md) _(sense: harm from the governance of AI: capture, lock-in, monoculture, dependency)_
- [Governance tail risk (severe harm generated by the institutions and controls built to manage AI) does not need to equal extinction risk in …](/claim/claim_aig_gov_tail.md) _(sense: harm from the governance of AI: capture, lock-in, monoculture, dependency)_
- [Small reductions in existential risk can carry large expected value.](/claim/claim_aig_lt_small_reductions.md) _(sense: harm from AI capability: misuse, autonomous failure, catastrophe)_
- [If a model lowers the non-model barriers between a plan and realised harm enough that catastrophic harm becomes accessible, scalable and ha…](/claim/claim_aig_misuse_threshold.md) _(sense: harm from AI capability: misuse, autonomous failure, catastrophe)_
- [Catastrophic and existential risk from AI should be taken seriously.](/claim/claim_aig_take_seriously.md) _(sense: harm from AI capability: misuse, autonomous failure, catastrophe)_