Impact Assessment

nounverified·updated Aug 28, 2026

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a risk management tool that seeks to ensure an organization has sufficiently considered a system's relative benefits and costs before implementation. In the context of AI, an impact assessment helps to answer a simple question: alongside this system’s intended use, for whom could it fail?

MWEExplainer: Impact Assessments for Artificial Intelligence

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An evaluation process designed to identify, understand, document and mitigate the potential ethical, legal, economic and societal implications of an AI system in a specific use case.

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plural: Impact Assessments
possessive: Impact Assessment's
pluralpossessive: Impact Assessments'

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