Introducing the AI Risk Navigator
A freely available cross-dataset AI risk tool could support APS analysts scoping risk domains or benchmarking governance coverage before drafting policy.
Key points
- MIT AIRI's new Navigator tool unifies AI risk, incident, governance, and mitigation datasets under a shared taxonomy.
- Policymakers can explore how governance documents map to specific risk domains against real-world incident records.
- Governance data skews toward US sources, limiting direct applicability to Australian regulatory contexts.
Implications for Australian agencies
- Consider APS AI governance and risk teams could assess whether the Navigator's taxonomy and incident dataset usefully inform risk scoping exercises or internal AI risk registers.
- Monitor Agencies may want to monitor future dataset expansions, particularly if AIRI integrates non-US governance sources that improve global representativeness.
Implications are AI-generated. Starting points, not advice — see methodology for how they're framed.
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"Introducing the AI Risk Navigator"
Source: MIT AI Risk Repository – Blog
Published: 21 April 2026
URL: https://airisk.mit.edu/blog/introducing-the-ai-risk-navigator
MIT's AI Risk Initiative has released the AI Risk Navigator (airi-navigator.com), an interactive tool that connects four previously siloed datasets — catalogued academic risks, real-world AI incidents, governance documents, and mitigation actions — under a shared seven-domain, 24-subdomain risk taxonomy. Users can navigate any risk subdomain and immediately view the relevant academic literature, incident record, and governance frameworks side-by-side. The tool is publicly available under CC BY 4.0 and supports PNG export for use in reports and presentations. The developers acknowledge that governance data skews toward US sources and that methodological constraints limit some cross-dataset comparisons.
Implications for Australian agencies:
- [Consider] APS AI governance and risk teams could assess whether the Navigator's taxonomy and incident dataset usefully inform risk scoping exercises or internal AI risk registers.
- [Monitor] Agencies may want to monitor future dataset expansions, particularly if AIRI integrates non-US governance sources that improve global representativeness.
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