Societal Capacity Assessment Framework: Measuring Resilience to Inform Advanced AI Risk Management

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22742v1
• Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2025 02:55:53 GMT
• Title: Societal Capacity Assessment Framework: Measuring Resilience to Inform Advanced AI Risk Management
• Authors: Milan Gandhi, Peter Cihon, Owen Larter, Rebecca Anselmetti,
• Abstract summary: Societal Capacity Assessment Framework (SCAF) is an indicators-based approach to measuring a society's vulnerability, coping capacity, and adaptive capacity in response to AI-related risks.<n>SCAF adapts established resilience analysis methodologies to AI, enabling organisations to ground risk management in insights about country-level deployment conditions.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Risk assessments for advanced AI systems require evaluating both the models themselves and their deployment contexts. We introduce the Societal Capacity Assessment Framework (SCAF), an indicators-based approach to measuring a society's vulnerability, coping capacity, and adaptive capacity in response to AI-related risks. SCAF adapts established resilience analysis methodologies to AI, enabling organisations to ground risk management in insights about country-level deployment conditions. It can also support stakeholders in identifying opportunities to strengthen societal preparedness for emerging AI capabilities. By bridging disparate literatures and the "context gap" in AI evaluation, SCAF promotes more holistic risk assessment and governance as advanced AI systems proliferate globally.

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