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AI Risk Assessment Builder

Make risks, evidence and unknowns visible before a proposed AI use case moves forward.
15–25 minutes
Runs in your browser

Use this when: reviewing a proposed AI use case across multiple risk areas and owners—not making a legal compliance or go-live decision.

WHAT YOU'LL ACHIEVE

Create a working risk picture, record mitigations and identify questions that need accountable human review.

IMPORTANT: A PLANNING AID, NOT CLEARANCE

This browser-local assessment does not determine legal compliance, certify a system, provide definitive risk clearance, or make go-live decisions. Critical gates cannot be overridden here. Use qualified people to review evidence and applicable obligations.

Do not enter personal, confidential or security-sensitive details. Nothing is stored or sent by this tool.

01 / DEFINE THE USE CASE

Context and people affected

02 / RATE WITH EVIDENCE

Assessment areas

Ratings are your provisional view, not model output. “Unknown” is a valid state: record what is missing instead of guessing.

01 Data sensitivity & privacyCritical gate

What personal, confidential, sensitive or regulated data may be used? Consider purpose, minimisation, access, retention and rights.

02 Impact & severityCritical gate

How serious, broad and reversible could harm be for people, the organisation or the public?

03 Accuracy & reliability

What evidence supports accuracy in the intended setting? Consider failure modes, drift, and who checks outputs.

04 Bias & fairness

Which groups could be disadvantaged? What representative evidence and checks exist?

05 Security & prompt injectionCritical gate

Could hostile inputs, prompt injection, data leakage, excessive permissions or insecure integrations cause harm?

06 Transparency

Will affected people understand when AI is involved, its limits, and how to challenge or appeal an outcome?

07 Human oversightCritical gate

Who is accountable? Can a qualified person review, pause, correct or reverse consequential actions?

08 Regulatory & compliance considerationsCritical gate

Which laws, policies, contracts or sector rules might apply? Record questions for qualified review; this tool cannot determine compliance.

09 Operational dependencies

What systems, suppliers, data flows, permissions and fallback processes does the use case depend on?

10 Monitoring & responseCritical gate

Who monitors performance, incidents, drift and complaints? What triggers escalation or stopping use?

03 / TRACK ACTIONS

Risk register

No register items yet. Add one to record a risk statement, controls and accountable owner.

04 / REVIEW THE REGISTER

Likelihood × impact matrix

Each cell shows register items at the selected likelihood × impact. Unknown ratings stay outside the matrix and must be resolved.

Risk register matrix: impact by likelihood
Impact ↓ / Likelihood →LowModerateHighCritical
Critical
High
Moderate
Low

PRELIMINARY SUMMARY

Critical gates unresolved, do not treat this as cleared

0 assessment areas or register items rated High or Critical; 10 assessment areas and 0 register items still have unknown ratings.

Non-overridable critical gates

  • Use-case purpose is not described.
  • Affected people or groups are not described.
  • Intended decisions or actions are not described.
  • Data sensitivity and privacy classification is unknown or not mapped.
  • Data sensitivity & privacy needs evidence or specialist review (unknown).
  • Impact & severity needs evidence or specialist review (unknown).
  • Security & prompt injection needs evidence or specialist review (unknown).
  • Human oversight needs evidence or specialist review (unknown).
  • Regulatory & compliance considerations needs evidence or specialist review (unknown).
  • Monitoring & response needs evidence or specialist review (unknown).

These gates cannot be dismissed or overridden in this tool.

Flagged unknowns

  • Data sensitivity & privacy
  • Impact & severity
  • Accuracy & reliability
  • Bias & fairness
  • Security & prompt injection
  • Transparency
  • Human oversight
  • Regulatory & compliance considerations
  • Operational dependencies
  • Monitoring & response

No overall result here is a go-live decision. A qualified owner must review the evidence, actions and residual risk.

05 / TAKE IT TO A HUMAN REVIEW

Working report

Preview the Markdown report
# AI Risk Assessment: working draft

> Planning aid only. This is not legal advice, a compliance determination, certification, definitive risk clearance or a go-live decision. All entries remain in this browser session; no information is sent or saved by this tool.

## Use-case context
- Purpose: Not provided
- Affected people: Not provided
- Intended decisions/actions: Not provided
- Data sensitivity: Unknown

## Overall summary
- Status: Critical gates unresolved, do not treat this as cleared
- Rationale: 0 assessment areas or register items rated High or Critical; 10 assessment areas and 0 register items still have unknown ratings.
- Non-overridable critical gates:
  - Use-case purpose is not described.
  - Affected people or groups are not described.
  - Intended decisions or actions are not described.
  - Data sensitivity and privacy classification is unknown or not mapped.
  - Data sensitivity & privacy needs evidence or specialist review (unknown).
  - Impact & severity needs evidence or specialist review (unknown).
  - Security & prompt injection needs evidence or specialist review (unknown).
  - Human oversight needs evidence or specialist review (unknown).
  - Regulatory & compliance considerations needs evidence or specialist review (unknown).
  - Monitoring & response needs evidence or specialist review (unknown).
- Flagged unknowns:
  - Data sensitivity & privacy
  - Impact & severity
  - Accuracy & reliability
  - Bias & fairness
  - Security & prompt injection
  - Transparency
  - Human oversight
  - Regulatory & compliance considerations
  - Operational dependencies
  - Monitoring & response

## Assessment evidence
### Data sensitivity & privacy
- Rating: Unknown
- Evidence / unknowns: Not provided
### Impact & severity
- Rating: Unknown
- Evidence / unknowns: Not provided
### Accuracy & reliability
- Rating: Unknown
- Evidence / unknowns: Not provided
### Bias & fairness
- Rating: Unknown
- Evidence / unknowns: Not provided
### Security & prompt injection
- Rating: Unknown
- Evidence / unknowns: Not provided
### Transparency
- Rating: Unknown
- Evidence / unknowns: Not provided
### Human oversight
- Rating: Unknown
- Evidence / unknowns: Not provided
### Regulatory & compliance considerations
- Rating: Unknown
- Evidence / unknowns: Not provided
### Operational dependencies
- Rating: Unknown
- Evidence / unknowns: Not provided
### Monitoring & response
- Rating: Unknown
- Evidence / unknowns: Not provided

## Risk register
No register items added.

## Review boundary
A qualified owner and relevant specialists must review evidence, residual risks and legal or sector-specific obligations. Critical gates cannot be overridden in this tool.

Review regulatory questions with qualified specialists. This tool does not claim compliance, certification, definitive clearance or safe deployment.

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