vulnerability
Let an agent explain vulnerability as a concept across fields, relay frameworks and assessment methods with attribution, describe how it informs policy and protection, and distinguish social, ecological, financial and psychological vulnerability from software vulnerabilities.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What vulnerability is.
Definition
Definition and dimensions.
Definition
Definition.
- What is vulnerability, and how does it relate to hazard, exposure, risk and resilience? definition
- Is the question about vulnerability of people or systems, or about a software vulnerability? boundary
Fields
Vulnerability by field.
Fields
Fields.
- How do disaster risk, climate, ecology, finance and psychology define vulnerability? definition
- Which entry fits the specific field? action
Assess Assessment.
Frameworks
Frameworks.
Frameworks
Frameworks.
- What frameworks such as Sendai and IPCC use to assess vulnerability? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Indicators
Indicators and indices.
Indicators
Indicators.
- How are vulnerability indices built, and what are their limits, as studies discuss? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Protect Protection and policy.
Policy
Policy uses.
Policy
Policy.
- How do policies target vulnerable groups in disasters, finance, care and law? provenance
- Is the presentation respectful of the groups described? boundary
Critique
Critiques of the concept.
Critique
Critique.
- What critiques of vulnerability labelling exist, with positions attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Context Psychology and ethics.
Psychology
Cognitive vulnerability.
Psychology
Psychology.
- What is cognitive vulnerability in models of depression and anxiety, as research describes? provenance
- Which entry fits cognitive vulnerability? action
Ethics
Ethics.
Ethics
Ethics.
- How do ethics and philosophy treat vulnerability as a human condition? provenance
- Which entry fits ethics of vulnerability? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Cross-cutting context
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- XCT
- Domain
- XCT.STA
- Other names and narrower kinds
- cognitive vulnerability, climate change vulnerability, ecological vulnerability, Vulnerability to violence, financial vulnerability, situational vulnerability, addiction vulnerability, economic vulnerability, loophole, Financial fragility, social vulnerability, structural vulnerability
What it is Filled
The state of being exposed to the possibility of harm and lacking the capacity to anticipate, cope with, resist or recover from it, applied to people, groups, systems and ecosystems in fields such as disaster risk, where vulnerability combines with hazard and exposure, climate change vulnerability, ecological vulnerability, financial vulnerability of households and firms, cognitive vulnerability in psychology, situational vulnerability, and vulnerability to violence; the concept underpins protection frameworks, and in computing it names a security weakness, a separate sense.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain vulnerability as a concept across fields, relay frameworks and assessment methods with attribution, describe how it informs policy and protection, and distinguish social, ecological, financial and psychological vulnerability from software vulnerabilities.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Susceptibility plus limited coping
- Multidimensional
- Basis of protection frameworks
- Contested normative uses
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Exploit a person's vulnerability, such as grief, illness or debt, for sales, persuasion or gain.
- Label a person as vulnerable in records without basis or their knowledge where they have a right to it.
- Publish vulnerability maps of communities that could be used to target them.
- Treat vulnerability as a fixed trait of a group rather than a condition.
Only with a human decision
- Deciding that a person is vulnerable in a way that limits their choices or triggers intervention.
May
- Assess and report the vulnerability of a system, place or group using a stated framework.
- Flag people who may be vulnerable so that a human can offer support.
Moral aspects Filled
- Vulnerable people need protection, but labelling them can also take away their autonomy.
- Knowledge of vulnerability can be used to protect or to exploit.
Who is affected
- People in vulnerable situations
- Carers and support workers
- Communities at risk
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody owns the concept; safeguarding bodies and risk authorities apply it in their fields.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q124809532 - registry parent class
- Q20899861 - registry parent class
- Q3505845 - registry parent class
- Q86923152 - registry parent class
related
- state - in registry terms
- internal risk - in registry terms
- psychosocial hazard - in registry terms, loosely
- hazard - and exposure to produce risk
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.vulnerability
- Wikidata: Q1178984 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1178984)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane XCT: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Susceptibility to harm and limited capacity to cope
- Disaster, climate, ecological, financial, cognitive and situational vulnerability
- Hazard is the source of harm; exposure is being in its path; a software vulnerability is a code weakness
- Not a visible object; a condition assessed by indicators.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain the concept across fields
- relay frameworks and assessment
- describe policy uses
- distinguish from software vulnerability
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Labelling groups as vulnerable without their voice
- Confusing vulnerability with hazard or exposure
- Confusing with software vulnerabilities
- Static assessments
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
- IPCC vulnerability frameworks
- Consumer protection rules on vulnerable customers
- Research ethics rules on vulnerable participants
Context of use required Filled
- Not applicable; a state of susceptibility to harm.
- social vulnerability in disaster risk
- climate change vulnerability
- ecological vulnerability
- financial vulnerability
- cognitive vulnerability to depression and anxiety
- situational vulnerability in law and care
- vulnerability to violence
- vulnerable groups in ethics and law
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q1178984: vulnerability - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Vulnerability - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should social vulnerability and climate vulnerability be separate entries?
- How should frameworks be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases spanning many fields; should they be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q1178984/spec.json