Governance

AI Incident Readiness Checklist

This checklist is designed to quickly assess whether an AI-enabled system is prepared for a real-world incident.

If you can't confidently answer "yes" to most of these, your system is exposed.

The Checklist

Governance & Ownership

Technical Controls

Observability & Audit

Security & Adversarial Readiness

Human-in-the-Loop

Recovery & Learning

This checklist is not exhaustive. But it is a baseline.

If your AI system cannot survive its first real incident, it should not be trusted with the next one.

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