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A negative consequence of building or using an AI system for a person, a group, an organisation, society or the environment. The book names each harm by the level it lands on, its mechanism, a testable failure mode and the control that catches it, mapped to the MIT AI Risk Repository taxonomy 1.

Developed in
Harms atlas
Chapters
ch. 03, Values & Principles
Source
1 numbered reference, listed below

Where it is used

2 chapters of the Body of Knowledge use the term. Each link opens the first section that does.

  • AI system

    For governance, the object the AI definition brings into scope.

Sources

  1. [1] The AI Risk Repository: a meta-review, database, and taxonomy of risks from artificial intelligence (Domain Taxonomy of 7 domains and 24 subdomains; CC BY 4.0). Slattery, Saeri, Grundy et al., Patterns (Cell Press). 2026. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2026.101517 (verified: primary)

Definitions of legal terms paraphrase the cited text, which governs. Dated statements are as of .

Cite this term

García Aibar, J. (2026). AI harm. In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis & Body of Knowledge (v0.5.0), Glossary. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197. https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/ai-harm. CC BY 4.0

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026aiharm,
  author  = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title   = {{AI harm}},
  note    = {Glossary, AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis \& Body of Knowledge, version 0.5.0},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.5281/zenodo.22956197},
  url     = {https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/ai-harm}
}