Glossary term
Glossary term
Governance and Compliance
Evidence describing how an AI system or model was developed, tested, governed, and controlled. Documentation supports compliance, auditability, incident review, and lifecycle accountability. Documentation must be maintained as the system changes; stale documentation is a common audit failure and undermines incident response.
EU AI Act Annex IV specifies technical documentation requirements for high-risk AI including general description, design specifications, monitoring, and risk management documentation.
OpenAI's GPT-4 System Card and Anthropic's Claude Model Cards are public examples of technical documentation for foundation models.
Hugging Face Model Cards, written using a structured template, are the most widely used machine-readable technical documentation format in the open-source AI community.