  To enable quantitative risk assessment of uncontrollable risk states in
complex and coupled IoT systems, a new epistemological equation is designed and
tested though comparative and empirical analysis. The comparative analysis is
conducted on national digital strategies, followed by an empirical analysis of
cyber risk assessment approaches. The new epistemological analysis approach
enables the assessment of uncontrollable risk states in complex IoT systems,
which begin to resemble artificial intelligence, and can be used for a
quantitative self-assessment of IoT cyber risk posture.
