Risk tiering
The practice of scoring every distinct task type an agent performs against a fixed set of questions, severity of impact, reversibility, and feasibility of human oversight in the Dayos method, and grouping task types with similar scores into named tiers, each carrying a defined reasoning strategy and autonomy decision.
Defined in 4 GAGE programs, which carry 4 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in Agentic AI Governance: Applied Mastery.
How each discipline defines it
The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.
The practice of scoring every distinct task type an agent performs against a fixed set of questions, severity of impact, reversibility, and feasibility of human oversight in the Dayos method, and grouping task types with similar scores into named tiers, each carrying a defined reasoning strategy and autonomy decision.
Sorting an agent's task types by severity of impact and reversibility of action, then assigning each tier a matching level of autonomy (full automation, automation with mandatory human sign-off, or no autonomous execution at all). Dayos's published case study is the framework's worked model of this practice.
Sorting work into levels (for example low, standard, high) by the consequence of an error, and attaching the appropriate review to each tier, with explicit triggers that let members self-sort.
Sorting AI systems into risk categories (for example, the EU's unacceptable / high-risk / limited-risk / minimal-risk) so obligations scale with risk. The first question of the regime reader.
Where it is taught
The exact lessons this term appears in. The first 7 topics of every program are free with a free account.
- Setting AI Usage Expectations Within Teams · AI in the Workplace and Team Leadership, AI Literacy & Professional Conduct
- Risk Tiering in Practice · Capability and Autonomy, Agentic AI Governance: Applied Mastery
- The Singapore stack: voluntary on paper, adopted in practice · The World's Rulebooks, AI Governance: Applied Mastery
- Transforming Across the Regulatory Map · Lab: Regional and Geopolitical AI, Business AI Transformation
Terms it appears with
Not an alphabetical neighbourhood: these are the terms taught in the same lessons, ranked by how often they appear together.