Making (and de-making) technological risk in banal spaces and speculative language

In this paper I provide a framework for enhancing seemingly objective approaches to AI risk assessment in a way that doesn't just see risk as only scaling vertically, levelling up through thresholds and tolerances(intensities). It draws on Raqs Media Collective’s An Infra-vocabulary for Capital (2023-2024) and considers how the work can be adapted to imagine horizontal formations of risk (accumulations) by using language and naming resulting in different apertures and resolutions on the relations that hold that risk together as a latent force in operational space.