United States: Guidance and Templates for Public-Facing AI Documentation: An AI Standards “Zero Draft” (Initial Public Draft)

1. 1 Scope 1 7
2. 2 Terms and definitions 1 8
3. 3 Dimensions of potential outcomes of public-facing documentation processes 2 9
4. 3.1 General 2 10
5. 3.2 Process-driven outcome dimensions 4 11
6. 3.3 Artifact-driven outcome dimensions 4 16
7. 3.4 Jointly driven outcome dimensions 5 19
8. 4 Guidance on public-facing documentation processes and artifacts 7 25
9. 4.1 General 7 26
10. 4.2 Guidance on documentation artifacts 7 27
11. 4.3 Guidance on documentation processes 9 36
12. 4.4 Trade-offs between qualities of documentation artifacts and processes 11 45
13. 5 Documentation templates 12 51
14. 5.1 General 12 52
15. 5.2 Dataset documentation template 14 53
16. 5.3 Model documentation template 15 54
17. 6 Profiles 19 55
18. 1 Scope 109
19. 2 Terms and definitions 123
20. 3 Dimensions of potential outcomes of public-facing documentation processes 172
21. 3.1 General 173
22. 3.2 Process-driven outcome dimensions 220
23. 3.3 Artifact-driven outcome dimensions 255
24. 3.4 Jointly driven outcome dimensions 299
25. 4 Guidance on public-facing documentation processes and artifacts 362
26. 4.1 General 363
27. 4.2 Guidance on documentation artifacts 376
28. 4.3 Guidance on documentation processes 463
29. 4.4 Trade-offs between qualities of documentation artifacts and processes 553
30. 5 Documentation templates 585
31. 5.1 General 586
32. 5.2 Dataset documentation template 621
33. 1 Identifying
34. 2 Intended
35. 3 Usage Rights
36. 4 Composition
37. 5 Evaluation Evidence regarding
38. 6 Maintenance
39. 7 Dataset
40. 5.3 Model documentation template 625
41. 2 Intended Use Information characterizing
42. 4 Design Information describing of
43. 5 Training Information about
44. 6 Evaluation Evidence regarding the
45. 7 Maintenance
46. 8 Governance Information characterizing
47. 6 Profiles 628
48. Annex A provides example profiles that specialize the templates from Clause 5 with subfields, designations, 6…
49. 1.1 Identifier One or more canonical names of the dataset, or
50. 1.2 Description Brief human-readable summary of the dataset’s
51. 1.3 Authorship
52. 1.4 Point of Contact Point of contact for feedback or questions
53. 1.5 Version
54. 1.6 Release Methods Information describing methods by which the
55. 1.7 Citation Technical citation format for referencing the
56. 1.8 Attributions Notices or attributions that are to be presented
57. 1.9 Documentation
58. 2 Intended Use Information characterizing the applications
59. 2.1 Intended Task Information describing one or more applications
60. 2.2 Applicable
61. 2.4 Anticipated Use Information describing ways in which the
62. 3.1 License Text of or link to license terms governing use of
63. 3.2 Payments Information describing payments required or
64. 3.3 Rightsholders Information referencing parties who have
65. 4.1 Data
66. 4.2 Sensitive Data Information describing what personally
67. 4.3 Data Collection Information describing methods and
68. 4.4 Time Span
69. 4.5 Sampling
70. 4.6 Consent
71. 4.8 Data
72. 4.9 Data Quality
73. 5 Evaluation Evidence regarding the dataset’s quality and
74. 5.1 Data Analysis Information describing analyses performed to
75. 5.2 Data
76. 5.3 Risk and Impact
77. 6.1 Distribution Information describing how the dataset is
78. 6.2 Maintainer Point of contact or organization responsible for
79. 6.3 Data Storage Information describing how and where the
80. 6.5 Versioning Policy Information describing how changes are tracked
81. 6.6 Change Log List of changes made to the dataset after initial
82. 6.7 Deprecation
83. 7 Governance Information characterizing organizational
84. 7.1 Framework
85. 7.2 Consent and Data
86. 7.3 Documentation
87. 7.4 Funding Information disclosing sources of financial
88. 7.5 Terminology Definitions or explanations of terms of art or
89. 1.1 Identifier One or more canonical names of the
90. 1.2 Description Brief human-readable summary of the
91. 1.5 Point of Contact Point of contact for feedback or questions
92. 1.6 Version
93. 1.7 Release Methods Information describing the methods by
94. 1.9 Citation Technical citation format for referencing
95. 1.10 Attributions Notices or attributions that are to be
96. 1.11 Lineage Information describing prior models from
97. 1.12 Documentation
98. 2 Intended Use Information characterizing the
99. 2.1 Intended Task Information describing one or more
100. 2.3 Intended
101. 2.5 Limitations Information about technical constraints
102. 2.6 Anticipated Use Information describing ways in which the
103. 2.7 Out-of-Scope Use Information describing notable uses for
104. 3 Usage Rights and
105. 3.1 License Text of or link to license terms governing
106. 3.2 Payments Information describing whether payment
107. 4 Design Information describing the model’s
108. 4.1 Algorithm and
109. 4.2 Performance
110. 4.3 Explainability and
111. 5 Training Information about protocols and data
112. 5.1 Training Protocol Information describing the procedures
113. 6 Evaluation Evidence regarding the model’s quality
114. 6.1 Evaluation
115. 6.2 Third-Party
116. 6.3 Quantitative and
117. 6.4 Performance
118. 6.6 Risk and Impact
119. 7 Maintenance and
120. 7.1 Monitoring
121. 7.2 Update
122. 7.3 Change Log List of changes made to the model after
123. 7.4 Maintainer Point of contact or organization
124. 7.5 Post-Deployment
125. 7.7 Versioning Policy Information describing how changes are
126. 7.8 Decommissioning
127. 7.9 Deprecation
128. 8.1 Framework
129. 8.2 Documentation
130. 8.3 Stakeholder
131. 8.4 Funding Information disclosing sources of financial
132. 8.5 Terminology Definitions or explanations of terms of art

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