Harm

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

An undesired outcome [whose] cost exceeds some threshold[; ...] the key points in the definition of safety are that: costs have to be sufficiently high in some human sense for events to be harmful, and that safety involves reducing both the probability of expected harms and the possibility of unexpected harms.

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Classifications

Entity Type

Event60%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

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damagehurtimpairmentinjurytrauma
plural
Harms
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Harm's
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Harms'