AI LIABILITY LAB

AI Insurance: The Next Specialty Line Following Cyber

Artificial intelligence is creating a new class of operational, regulatory, and transactional exposures that traditional insurance products were never designed to absorb. The market is now following the same structural evolution as early cyber:

•             Initial exclusions as carriers limit exposure

•             Fragmented endorsements with inconsistent wording

•             Demand for affirmative coverage

•             Regulators introducing AI-specific obligations

•             Board-level monitoring and governance requirements

Over the last decade, cyber insurance evolved from a niche add‑on to a global specialty market exceeding $15B in annual premium. That growth was driven by the emergence of a new class of risk that traditional policies could not absorb.

We are now watching the same pattern repeat with Artificial Intelligence, as AI becomes instrumental and widespread across the new AI economy.

AI introduces a distinct category of exposure — AI performance risk — including failures, hallucinations, bias, regulatory violations, IP leakage, model drift, and operational dependency on systems that behave in probabilistic ways.

Current policies were not built for these exposures. We are at the inflection point where AI requires its own dedicated insurance architecture — one that blends model integrity, operational resilience, governance, and third‑party liability into a coherent framework.

This is the beginning of a new specialty line.

AI Insurance will follow the same trajectory cyber did — but faster. The exposure is broader, the adoption curve is steeper, and the dependency is deeper.

GoRisk is focused on collaborating with insurtechs, carriers, AI integrity platforms, and global consulting firms to define and build AI‑specific policies.

Cyber was the last major category‑creation moment in specialty insurance.

AI is the next one. And the market is ready.

GoRisk invites comments and participation from across the industry.

Michael P. Cahill
Founder & Managing Principal

Michael has over forty years of global experience and leadership roles in the insurance, risk and financial sectors.

In 1998, he was the co-founder, CEO of GoRisk, Inc., a proprietary web-based artificial intelligence risk management system. GoRisk morphed into a risk strategy and advisory firm.

Cahill is raising $250+M to launch GoRisk Specialty, a global hybrid MGA/Carrier strategy. He serves as Senior Advisor to Macquarie and Culpeper Brokerage Partners, a brokerage roll-up with David King. He has developed bespoke insurance for Litigation funds, carriers, & mutuals and a decommissioning solution to support ESG transition.

As managing director, Marsh, one of his responsibilities was covering Macquarie and helped build their $1+Bn Macquarie insurance facility, and also developed and led a bancassurance program with HSBC.  

He was previously an executive vice president and a board member of a privately-held reinsurance broker responsible for US sales and managing Bermuda operations. Earlier in his career, he served as executive vice president and head of US sales for AON and a member of the inaugural AON Global Energy Board.

His areas of global expertise include management, strategy, team leadership, finance, sales, regulatory, solving complex issues, and designing and marketing of bespoke products. He enjoys senior level relationships with insurance markets and financial entities.