AI Harmonics: a human-centric and harms severity-adaptive AI risk assessment framework
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| author | Vei, Sofia Giudici, Paolo Sermpezis, Pavlos Vakali, Athena Bernardelli, Adelaide Emma |
| author_facet | Vei, Sofia Giudici, Paolo Sermpezis, Pavlos Vakali, Athena Bernardelli, Adelaide Emma |
| contents | The absolute dominance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) introduces unprecedented societal harms and risks. Existing AI risk assessment models focus on internal compliance, often neglecting diverse stakeholder perspectives and real-world consequences. We propose a paradigm shift to a human-centric, harm-severity adaptive approach grounded in empirical incident data. We present AI Harmonics, which includes a novel AI harm assessment metric (AIH) that leverages ordinal severity data to capture relative impact without requiring precise numerical estimates. AI Harmonics combines a robust, generalized methodology with a data-driven, stakeholder-aware framework for exploring and prioritizing AI harms. Experiments on annotated incident data confirm that political and physical harms exhibit the highest concentration and thus warrant urgent mitigation: political harms erode public trust, while physical harms pose serious, even life-threatening risks, underscoring the real-world relevance of our approach. Finally, we demonstrate that AI Harmonics consistently identifies uneven harm distributions, enabling policymakers and organizations to target their mitigation efforts effectively. |
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| spellingShingle | AI Harmonics: a human-centric and harms severity-adaptive AI risk assessment framework Vei, Sofia Giudici, Paolo Sermpezis, Pavlos Vakali, Athena Bernardelli, Adelaide Emma Artificial Intelligence Methodology The absolute dominance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) introduces unprecedented societal harms and risks. Existing AI risk assessment models focus on internal compliance, often neglecting diverse stakeholder perspectives and real-world consequences. We propose a paradigm shift to a human-centric, harm-severity adaptive approach grounded in empirical incident data. We present AI Harmonics, which includes a novel AI harm assessment metric (AIH) that leverages ordinal severity data to capture relative impact without requiring precise numerical estimates. AI Harmonics combines a robust, generalized methodology with a data-driven, stakeholder-aware framework for exploring and prioritizing AI harms. Experiments on annotated incident data confirm that political and physical harms exhibit the highest concentration and thus warrant urgent mitigation: political harms erode public trust, while physical harms pose serious, even life-threatening risks, underscoring the real-world relevance of our approach. Finally, we demonstrate that AI Harmonics consistently identifies uneven harm distributions, enabling policymakers and organizations to target their mitigation efforts effectively. |
| title | AI Harmonics: a human-centric and harms severity-adaptive AI risk assessment framework |
| topic | Artificial Intelligence Methodology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10104 |