Bodily Injury

AI Risk

"Bodily injury - Physical pain, injury, illness, or disease suffered by an individual or group due to the malfunction, use or misuse of a technology system."

Overview

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Techniques0Attack methods connected to this risk.

Mitigations0Defenses that may help with related attacks.

Records2Source records unified into this concept.

Risk profile

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Domainn/a

SubdomainX.1 > Excluded

Entity3 - Other

Intent3 - Other

Timing2 - Post-deployment

CategoryPhysical

SubcategoryBodily Injury

Merged risk records

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MITRISK-Abercrombie2024-58.02.01 - Bodily Injury

"Bodily injury - Physical pain, injury, illness, or disease suffered by an individual or group due to the malfunction, use or misuse of a technology system."

SubdomainX.1 > ExcludedSourceA Collaborative, Human-Centred Taxonomy of AI, Algorithmic, and Automation HarmsYear2024

MITRISK-Li2025-66.11.02 - Bodily injury

"Physical pain, injury, illness, or disease suffered by an individual or group due to the malfunction, use or misuse of a technology system."

SubdomainX.1 > ExcludedSourceA Closer Look at the Existing Risks of Generative AI: Mapping the Who, What, and How of Real-World IncidentsYear2025

Mitigations

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Source evidence

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Included resource

A Collaborative, Human-Centred Taxonomy of AI, Algorithmic, and Automation Harms

AuthorsAbercrombie et al.Year2024TypeJournal Article

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2407.01294 URLhttps://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.01294

Original source

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