HumCat proposes AI support for catastrophe prevention

Benefits

Benefit: KYield announced HumCat on July 18, 2017. Its release describes a distributed AI system operating within organizational workflows and a prevention program that could be combined with insurance or catastrophe bonds. A later founder account describes risk mitigation and performance guarantees as proposed commercial features. Neither source supplies a named customer, observed avoided catastrophe, evaluation design, or quantified realized loss reduction. [1] [2]
Category: Reduced Risk
Status: intended [1] [2]
Beneficiary groups: Organizations. Society.
Expected?: Yes
Outcome identifiers: Not assessed
Beneficiaries: Not assessed
Reach: Not assessed
Distribution and access: Not assessed
Duration: Not assessed
Costs and harms: Not assessed

System: HumCat, powered by the Kyield Operating System (KOS) [1] [2]
Application developer: KYield, Inc.
Workflow: KYield describes a distributed AI system operating within organizational workflows.
Relation to AI: The maker describes AI filtering organizational information and detecting risk. The sources do not establish a measured prevention effect or isolate an AI contribution.
AI contribution: The maker describes AI filtering organizational information and detecting risk. The sources do not establish a measured prevention effect or isolate an AI contribution. [1] [2]
Model: Not assessed
Release: Not assessed
Role: Not assessed
Configuration: Not assessed
Inputs and outputs: Not assessed
Autonomy: Not assessed
Human oversight: Not assessed

Conditions for replication: A prevention claim requires a documented intervention, a credible counterfactual, and independently reviewable evidence.
Later findings: Subsequent deployment and benefit outcomes have not been established by the reviewed sources.
Replication attempts: Not assessed
Availability: Not assessed
Institutional decision: Not assessed
Grounds: Not assessed
Action and result: Not assessed
Success criterion: Not assessed

Source numbers: Recorded value
Citations: Recorded value [1] [2]
Source relationships: Recorded value [1] [2]
Original evidence: The source review separates original evidence from repeated accounts and records material access limits. [1] [2]
Access and versions: Recorded value [1] [2]
Evidence links: Recorded value [1] [2]
Evidence strength: Recorded value
Language: Not assessed
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Missing evidence: Not assessed

Assessed benefits: Organizations. Society.
Reasons: Organizations: The reviewed material does not establish the magnitude of a benefit for this group. Society: The reviewed material does not establish the magnitude of a benefit for this group.
Observed or intended: Intended benefits. The depths describe their intended extent.
Fill: The makers' claim
Depth: Not assessed
Rubric: Not assessed
Assessor and date: Not assessed
Alternative assessments: Not assessed

Field: Organizational risk management and catastrophe prevention.
Purpose: HumCat is intended to detect organizational risks and prevent human-caused catastrophes. [1] [2]
Dates: Recorded value
Stage: reported product or program; outcomes unverified [1] [2]
Version: 3b0afd08eea99d2ece30381a42f47f306e039a22a2e260e0de6f3a36adf9aec0
Kind: Not assessed
Related entries: Not assessed