OPSOPS-001 — Monitoring and Alerting Inadequacies
AI Operational Failures in Safety-Critical Infrastructure
4/5Sector: OtherGeography: GlobalStage: OperateIngested: —
Executive Summary
AI misjudgements and human misuse in safety-critical systems create single points of failure capable of triggering cascading catastrophic harm. Boards must mandate rigorous failure-mode analysis and human oversight protocols before any such deployment is approved.
Domain
Operational Management
Blindspots in monitoring, incident response, performance, scalability, integration, and business continuity.
Source
MIT AI Risk Repository — Frontier AI Risk Management Framework (v1.0) (Tse2025) ↗https://airisk.mit.edu/
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