AI Risk Assessment Checklist
A practical tool for identifying and mitigating AI risks.
Innovation and responsibility must go hand-in-hand. Before you deploy any new AI system, it’s crucial to understand and mitigate the potential risks. This checklist is a practical, easy-to-use tool designed to guide you through a comprehensive risk assessment process, ensuring your AI projects are safe, ethical, and compliant.
What's Inside the Checklist?
This checklist provides a structured framework for assessing risks across four key areas:
Data Protection & Privacy: Prompts to ensure your use of data is compliant with UK GDPR and respects the privacy of your beneficiaries and supporters.
Ethics & Fairness: Questions to help you identify and mitigate potential algorithmic bias, ensuring your AI tools are fair and equitable.
Security & Operations: Considerations for vetting vendors, preventing misuse, and ensuring you have robust human oversight.
Reputation & Trust: Prompts to help you think through how your use of AI will be perceived by the public, donors, and partners.
Why Your Charity Needs This
Make Informed Decisions: Move from uncertainty to clarity. This checklist helps you make evidence-based decisions about which AI tools to adopt.
Protect Your Reputation: Proactively identify and address ethical and reputational risks before they become a problem.
Streamline Compliance: Use this checklist as evidence for your DPIAs (Data Protection Impact Assessments) and demonstrate due diligence to regulators.