How far do methods for AI risk assessment reach — mapping where the gaps sit against what regulation requires
Risk-based regulatory frameworks are taking shape while methods for actually assessing and managing risk remain unsettled. This overview surveys the regulatory landscape, the range of risks and the main assessment methodologies, and identifies where methodological gaps lie.
Paper overview (our summary)
- Field (arXiv category)cs.CY（+2）
- AuthorsJavier Irigoyen, Roberto Daza, Aythami Morales, et al. (8)
- Submitted2026-07-02
- arXiv ID2607.02197v1
Key points
- An overview addressing the gap between risk-based regulatory frameworks taking shape and methods for assessment remaining unsettled.
- It reviews the worldwide regulatory landscape, the range of AI-related risks and the main assessment methodologies in turn.
- The range of risk runs from technical failures to ethical and social impacts, which no single method covers.
- Highlighting best practices while illuminating methodological gaps is among its stated aims.
- A six-page paper with eight authors, accepted at an international conference held in October 2026.
1Regulation arrives first, methods follow
Frameworks that vary regulatory weight by degree of risk are taking shape across jurisdictions. What they require is that risk be assessed and managed. Requiring assessment and having established methods for it, however, are different things. This paper maps that distance.
- 1FirstReview the worldwide regulatory landscape and establish what is required
- 2SecondCharacterize the range of AI-related risks, from technical failures to ethical and social impacts
- 3ThirdReview the assessment methodologies proposed, focusing on general frameworks
- 4FourthSet out best practices and where methodological gaps lie
An overview proposes no new method. Its contribution is showing what exists and what does not. Where a field is expanding quickly, that ordering has value in itself.
2The breadth of risk
The range the authors characterize runs from technical failures to ethical and social impacts. That breadth is what makes assessment difficult. No single method covers it, and different subjects call for different approaches.
3Showing the gaps as a contribution
The paper sets out to highlight best practices while illuminating methodological gaps. This site separately covers work reporting that at least 74 risk taxonomies exist while most stop at cataloguing. Frameworks proliferate while the part that actually measures and grades stays thin — a point both share.
4The link to regulatory documents
This site covers many articles on how rules themselves are made. Where a rule requires that an assessment be carried out, the methods by which it might be carried out are not written into the rule. Work of this kind fills the space between rule and implementation. This article is our own summary of public research information and does not warrant its contents.
Why it matters
A rule requiring assessment does not write the method into its text. Understanding the space between what is required and what can actually be done is a precondition for planning a response.
FAQ
Does regulation make assessment possible?
Why does no single method cover it?
Sources (primary)
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- arXiv abstract page (original, official)
- PDF (arXiv)
- arXiv ID: 2607.02197