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The canonical nine-class AI risk classification system for legal functions, versioned at 2026.1. The nine classes are: (1) Hallucination, (2) Data leakage, (3) Model drift, (4) Vendor lock-in, (5) Regulatory non-compliance, (6) Professional conduct exposure, (7) Client confidentiality breach, (8) Shadow AI proliferation, and (9) Accountability dilution. Every AI use case in the legal function is assessed and registered against this taxonomy; every Risk Register entry maps to one of the nine classes. 'Risk framework', 'Risk model', and 'Risk register taxonomy' are forbidden synonyms.
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Hallucination
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Data leakage
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Model drift
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Vendor lock-in
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Accountability dilution
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Shadow AI
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Risk Register
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Evidence Register
Governance
Defensible AI
Framework
Regulatory non-compliance
Regulation
Professional conduct exposure
Regulation
Client confidentiality breach
Regulation
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