S01¶


Research	R0043 — Sycophancy Vocabulary
Run	2026-03-28
Query	Q003
Search	S01

WebSearch — AI taxonomy bridging and terminology gap efforts

Summary¶

Field	Value
Source/Database	WebSearch (two queries)
Query terms	(1) "AI taxonomy" "terminology gap" "vocabulary mismatch" safety governance regulated industries bridging; (2) AI safety governance shared taxonomy terminology bridging regulated industries 2024 2025
Filters	None
Results returned	20
Results selected	5
Results rejected	15

Selected Results¶

Result	Title	URL	Rationale
S01-R01	How to fix the AI terminology gap — Trilateral Research	https://trilateralresearch.com/responsible-ai/how-to-fix-the-ai-terminology-gap	Directly addresses the terminology gap as a named problem
S01-R02	Standardized Threat Taxonomy — arXiv	https://arxiv.org/html/2511.21901	53-threat taxonomy bridging technical and regulatory domains
S01-R03	MIT AI Risk Repository — IAPP	https://iapp.org/news/a/naming-the-unseen-how-the-mit-ai-risk-repository-helps-map-the-uncertain-terrain-of-ai-governance	1,600 risk formulations across 65 documents
S01-R04	We Can't Understand AI Using Existing Vocabulary — arXiv	https://arxiv.org/html/2502.07586v1	Fundamental argument for vocabulary insufficiency
S01-R05	AIR 2024 Risk Categorization — arXiv	https://arxiv.org/html/2406.17864v1	314 risk categories across 8 government and 16 corporate policies

Rejected Results¶

Result	Title	URL	Rationale
S01-R06	Various AI governance and regulation overviews	Multiple	15 results rejected: general governance frameworks, regulation summaries, commercial guides without specific terminology-gap focus

Notes¶

Strong evidence that the broader terminology gap is recognized. The Trilateral Research article is the most explicit, and the Standardized Threat Taxonomy paper coins the "Tower of Babel problem" phrase. However, none of these sources specifically discuss sycophancy/overreliance as a vocabulary gap — they address AI risk terminology generally.