GOVGOV-006 — Audit and Assurance Gaps
General-Purpose AI Capabilities Resist Reliable Measurement
4/5Sector: OtherGeography: GlobalStage: OperateIngested: —
Executive Summary
General-purpose AI systems exhibit emergent properties and broad risk distributions that defeat standard evaluation metrics. Regulators and boards cannot assure compliance or safety where capability boundaries remain undefined and unmeasurable.
Domain
Governance & Compliance
Blindspots in accountability, regulatory compliance, ethics, risk management, data governance, and audit.
Source
MIT AI Risk Repository — Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems (Gipiškis2024) ↗https://airisk.mit.edu/
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