"""Risk Engine — Automated Research Risk Assessment. Identifies potential pitfalls in research trends including patent thickets, licensing restrictions, and compute requirements. """ import logging from typing import List, Dict logger = logging.getLogger("vectormind.intelligence") class RiskEngine: """Analyzes technical, market, and legal risks for research trends.""" def __init__(self): self.risk_categories = { "legal": ["patent", "license", "copyright", "trademark"], "technical": ["compute", "memory", "latency", "dataset"], "market": ["competition", "moat", "adoption", "cost"] } def analyze_risks(self, trend_title: str, description: str, metadata: Dict) -> List[Dict]: """Assess risks based on signal content and metadata.""" risks = [] text = (trend_title + " " + description).lower() # 1. Patent Risk if "patent" in text or metadata.get("patent_number"): risks.append({ "type": "Legal", "severity": "High", "label": "Patent Thicket Detected", "detail": "Core technique may be covered by active patent filings." }) # 2. Compute Risk if any(kw in text for kw in ["transformer", "large language model", "diffusion", "gpu"]): risks.append({ "type": "Technical", "severity": "Medium", "label": "High Compute Requirement", "detail": "Likely requires A100/H100 clusters for full training." }) # 3. Licensing Risk license_id = metadata.get("license", "").upper() if "GPL" in license_id or "CC-BY-NC" in license_id: risks.append({ "type": "Legal", "severity": "Critical", "label": "Restrictive License", "detail": f"Dataset or code uses {license_id}, restricting commercial use." }) return risks