Risk and safety

System card

A developer's detailed report on a model or AI system as released, typically covering safety testing, red-team findings, risk assessments and mitigations. Longer than a model card; the most useful sections are usually the known limitations.


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AI text detector

A tool that claims to tell whether text was written by AI. They are unreliable: they produce false positives, particul…

Adversarial example

An input subtly altered to fool a model, such as an image with changes invisible to people that makes a classifier see…

Alignment

Making an AI system's behaviour match the intentions and values of the people it serves, including in situations its d…

Automation bias

The human tendency to over-trust an automated system's output and stop checking it, especially when it is usually righ…

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