The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Topics at Nexus Labs: the pages in this section are listed below, each with its own scope and status.
GCRI · Established · service level R0
The Nexus Labs topics are the eight subject dossiers of its field, among them research protocols, field and lab testbeds, and AI in scientific workflows. Each dossier sets out how the risk develops, what is measured and in which units, the public sources and their licences, the methods, who decides and the limits of the evidence.
GCRI is a research, development and policy institution. It is not a regulator, and it does not certify, license or approve; its findings carry their methods and uncertainty.
The topics cover how experiments are designed (protocols, testbeds, reproducibility) and the labs that run them on AI, work, media, energy and water, and health.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Preregistration | Recording a study's hypotheses, design and analysis plan in a public registry before data collection or analysis. |
| Living lab | A real-life setting in which users and communities take part in developing and testing innovations. |
| Data leakage | Information from the test set reaching a model during training, which inflates reported performance. |
| Task exposure | The share of a job's tasks that a technology could in principle perform, which is not the same as job loss. |
| Truth discernment | The ability to tell true from false claims, measured as the gap in belief between them. |
The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.
Hypotheses, controls and scientific acceptance.
TopicTest environments, safety and site permissions.
TopicModel evaluation and scientific assistance.
TopicWorkforce and institutional change research.
TopicInformation ecosystems and responsible media innovation.
TopicWater, energy and technical transitions.
TopicHuman health, One Health and biotech.
TopicFailure records and corrections.
The current service level is R0: information and enquiries. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.