Risk Management

Risk professional reviewing an AI risk register heat map next to an AI assistant chat window

A Researcher Just Put a Number on Human Extinction. Your Risk Register Needs a Different One.

This week produced three AI stories that look separate but aren’t. Anthropic’s own alignment lead put a number on AI wiping out humanity: a chance he personally puts at more than 10% within the next decade. The company’s latest Threat Intelligence Report disclosed that it has spent the months since December 2025 detecting and blocking

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Venn diagram showing three overlapping types of risk — financial risk (ACA/ACCA), project risk (PMI/APM) and operational risk (ISO 22301) — with their small area of overlap labelled 'Risk: one word, several meanings

Risk means different things to Different People. That’s the whole problem.

I spent a chunk of last weekend scrolling through risk management job vacancies, out of nothing more than professional nosiness (and a need to avoid 24/7 football). It’s not as if the confusion over what “risk” actually means was news to me — I’ve spent the best part of two decades watching it play out

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