Taxonomy of 26 Ways AI Can Make Your Life Worse

A principal threat intelligence researcher presents a taxonomy of 26 consumer AI harms across five relationship types—chatbot to consumer, agent to consumer, threat actor to consumer, threat actor to agent, and threat actor to chatbot—organized around points of intervention rather than a direct harm-to-defense mapping. Each harm is traced through one or more of 19 intermediary layers, such as a foundation model, agent runtime, memory store, or consumer device, with defenses attached where they would actually have to be built. The author notes many harms can only be fixed by the companies making the models and running the products, and that the work in progress has thin evidence for some entries.