Area 9.1

Identify the Risks Specific to AI

What can actually go wrong here that ordinary risk management would miss?

Enhanced: 1 1 controls

Who it applies to

Enter for every AI system whose letter is E or A (this area has no Baseline controls). Go as deep as your system letter, and implement in your mode.

Why it exists

Build and maintain a catalogue of the risks that AI introduces — the ones your existing enterprise risk process was not built to see. They fall into three families. First, risks from the model itself: it can be manipulated, it can be poisoned, its powers can be abused, it can state falsehoods, it can leak what it learned. Second, risks from the supply chain: a provider, a downloaded model, a dataset, or an external agent can each fail or turn out to be compromised. Third, the risk of AI you do not know about — the shadow AI adopted without governance, which is a risk precisely because it sits outside every control you have built. Name them all; a risk uncatalogued is a risk unmanaged.

What to actually do

Controls

Enhanced 1 controls

Control 220

Maintain an AI risk catalogue covering model, supply-chain, and shadow-AI risks.

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What it is

Drawing together the specific risks named across the domains.

How to implement it · Minimum content
  • Model risks: manipulation through inputs, poisoning, abuse of its permissions, false statements, leakage of training or context data
  • Supply-chain risks: provider failure or silent change, compromised downloaded model, flawed dataset, untrusted external agent
  • Shadow-AI risk: AI in use that is not in the inventory
  • Per risk: identifier, description, systems affected, source domain, owner
  • Link to the control or controls that treat it
  • Last review date and the change event that prompted it
How to start

Gather the risks already named in the inventory, sourcing and technical-security records into one list, one row per risk.

Evidence

The AI risk catalogue, with references showing where each entry came from and when it was last updated.

Mode: light / standard / full
light
The person responsible for AI keeps it as a tab of the inventory spreadsheet.
standard
The risk or security lead maintains it; system owners confirm which entries apply.
full
The risk function holds it in the enterprise risk tool, with owners per risk family.

Evidence

The AI risk catalogue; evidence it is drawn from and kept current with the other domains.