AI in Risk Management

  • Release version: Australia
  • Updated July 23, 2026
  • 1 minute to read
  • ServiceNow Otto for Integrated Risk Management (IRM) brings AI-generated risk suggestions and summaries to Risk Management, helping risk managers discover risks faster and assessors understand risk events without writing summaries manually.

    ServiceNow Otto for Integrated Risk Management (IRM) adds generative AI capabilities to Risk Management. These capabilities help risk managers discover potential risks faster, and help assessors and approvers understand risk events and risk assessments without creating summaries manually.

    When AI activates in Risk Management

    ServiceNow Otto for IRM and a workspace, such as Risk Workspace, must be installed before any AI capability is set to available. The risk event summarization and risk assessment summarization skills are active by default unless deactivated manually. The Suggest potential risks workflow and its Risk Suggestion AI Agent must be activated separately before the conversational assistant appears in the Now Assist panel.

    AI capabilities in Risk Management

    The following AI capabilities are available in Risk Management.

    Table 1. AI capabilities in Risk Management
    Capability What it does Where it appears
    Suggest potential risks A conversational AI agent identifies and consolidates potential risks for an entity from internal, industry, and external sources, and removes duplicate suggestions. Entity record, Risks tab, Suggested risks, in Risk Workspace.
    Generate a risk event summary AI generates a summary of a risk event so that approvers and new assignees can understand its context without reading the full history. Risk event record, in the classic UI and in Risk Workspace.
    Generate an AI risk assessment summary AI generates a summary based on inherent risk, residual risk, target risk, and control effectiveness data. Risk assessment record, in Risk Workspace only.