What Is System Card?
System Card is a transparency document describing how a complete AI system behaves, including the model, its safeguards, evaluations, and known limitations.
System Card — a transparency document describing how a complete AI system behaves, including the model, its safeguards, evaluations, and known limitations.
A system card is broader than a model card: where a model card documents a single model's characteristics, a system card describes the deployed system as a whole — including guardrails, content filters, human-oversight arrangements, and the results of safety evaluations and red-teaming. System cards have become a common voluntary disclosure for frontier AI deployments and support the transparency expectations in frameworks such as the NIST AI RMF and the EU AI Act.
Source: NIST AI RMF; Mitchell et al. (2019), Model Cards
Plain-language explanation
A system card is broader than a model card: where a model card documents a single model's characteristics, a system card describes the deployed system as a whole — including guardrails, content filters, human-oversight arrangements, and the results of safety evaluations and red-teaming. System cards have become a common voluntary disclosure for frontier AI deployments and support the transparency expectations in frameworks such as the NIST AI RMF and the EU AI Act.
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