On 11th November 2025 Pierre Morel from BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, gave a talk about identifying and responding to AI risks, specifically from a Responsible AI perspective. The key theme was about understanding that the risk landscape spreads much beyond technology alone. For instance, Pierre mentioned “external” risk factors, upon which an organisation will have less control, including: third party risks (e.g. supplier chain, use of third party software, licensing etc.); model issues (confabulations); legal and compliance risks (a very dynamic area); human factors (this includes malevolent use such as prompt injection); and societal implications.
Additionally, risks pertinent to data used by the organisation are very prominent, ranging from obtaining legitimate data to managing many potential biases in that data (Pierre shared a bias taxonomy containing 25 types of bias and their explanation).
Finally, Morel concluded that risks are “a prompt to improve” especially if managed as early as possible and that ethics is a risk “control mechanism”. In that context, ethics is a management discipline: it’s about anticipating consequences, forecasting scenarios, assigning accountability, and designing systems that behave consistently with your organisation’s purpose and values.
For more details, please contact Pierre.Morel@criticalp3m.com