Rights & Ethics
user harm
Harms to users including privacy invasion, defamation, discrimination, illegal facilitation.
Definition
Adverse impacts on users resulting from AI inputs, processing, or outputs — explicitly including privacy invasion, defamation, discriminatory outcomes, and facilitation of illegal acts — and serving as the central risk object for the guideline's risk‑based mitigation approach.
Related Terms
AI-Related Harm
Damage to life, health, property, or legal interests caused by AI....
high-risk uses
AI uses with significant potential harm to rights, safety or wellbeing....
Harmful Bias
Systematic AI errors creating unfair or discriminatory outcomes....
Rights-impacting AI
AI systems whose outputs have significant legal or material effects on people....
Risk profile
Categorization of foreseeable harms by likelihood and severity....