SafeguardSafeguardsestablished

Traceability

The ability to reconstruct relevant data, decisions, responsibilities, system changes, and events across a lifecycle.

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Source-linked claims

synthesisConfidence: highContestability: low

Traceability connects decisions and system behavior to records that can support inquiry, review, and accountability.

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OECD AI Principles

Source-level attribution only. A precise supporting passage has not yet been recorded. Existing locator: OECD principle 1.5; EU AI Act high-risk obligations.

Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 — Artificial Intelligence Act

Source-level attribution only. A precise supporting passage has not yet been recorded. Existing locator: OECD principle 1.5; EU AI Act high-risk obligations.

Appears in worked analyses

Releasing a significantly more capable frontier model
A frontier AI developer must decide whether to release a model that is significantly more capable than anything currently deployed.
Licensing an imported AI triage system
A health ministry in a middle-income country must decide whether to license an AI triage system that was trained and evaluated elsewhere.
Adopting an AI shortlisting tool under a risk-based law
An employer operating in the European Union must decide whether to adopt a vendor's AI system to shortlist job applicants.
A community organisation deploys a multilingual AI assistant
A community organisation must decide whether to launch an AI chat assistant that answers residents' questions about public services in several languages.

Provenance

OECD AI Principles
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development · recommendation · published 2019-05-22 · 2024 update
oecd-ai-principles · Last checked 2026-09-04 · claims and passages
Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 — Artificial Intelligence Act
European Union · law · published 2024-07-12 · Official Journal text
Original 2024 enactment, not a consolidated current-law or applicability check. Records discuss its text, not whether a provision applies to a particular situation today.
eu-ai-act · Last checked 2026-09-04 · claims and passages
Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0)
National Institute of Standards and Technology · framework · published 2023-01-26 · 1.0
nist-ai-rmf-1 · Last checked 2026-09-04 · claims and passages
Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law (CETS No. 225)
Council of Europe · treaty · published 2024-09-05 · Opened for signature 5 September 2024
The Council of Europe overview page was reviewed, not the treaty text itself. The Convention binds only parties for which it has entered into force, and is largely framed as obligations on states to adopt measures. Signature and ratification status changes; verify before relying on it. The treaty text itself (CETS 225) was opened on 19 October 2026 for the definitions comparison.
coe-framework-convention · Last checked 2026-09-06 · claims and passages

Cross-cutting tests

Lifecycle stages

Model development
Deployment
Monitoring
Incident response

Diagnostic questions this concept helps answer

06What safeguards translate the objective into practice?

Relations in the model

Risk management process — creates need for → Traceability
Mapping: asserted
Risk management process
Ongoing risk decisions need records that can be reviewed and revised.
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Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0) (opens in a new tab)
Source-level attribution only. A precise supporting passage has not yet been recorded.
Traceability — evidenced by → Audit record
Mapping: asserted
Audit record
Logs, approvals, and change histories can support a traceability claim when they are complete and reviewable.
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OECD AI Principles (opens in a new tab)
Source-level attribution only. A precise supporting passage has not yet been recorded.
Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 — Artificial Intelligence Act (opens in a new tab)
Source-level attribution only. A precise supporting passage has not yet been recorded.
Liability exposure — creates demand for → Traceability
Mapping: asserted
Liability exposure
Where an actor may have to answer for a decision, records that reconstruct it become worth keeping; the Convention ties documentation to the ability to challenge decisions.
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Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law (CETS No. 225) (opens in a new tab)
Overview page — introduction; 'What does the Framework Convention require states to do?': fundamental principles; remedies, procedural rights and safeguards
The Council of Europe describes the Convention as the first international legally binding treaty in the field, opened for signature on 5 September 2024, covering activities within the lifecycle of AI systems. It lists principles including transparency and oversight and accountability and responsibility, and says parties must ensure documentation sufficient for affected people to challenge decisions and the use of a system, with an effective possibility to complain to competent authorities.
Scope note: The Council of Europe overview page was reviewed, not the treaty text itself. The Convention binds only parties for which it has entered into force, and is largely framed as obligations on states to adopt measures. Signature and ratification status changes; verify before relying on it. The treaty text itself (CETS 225) was opened on 19 October 2026 for the definitions comparison.
Passage checked 2026-09-06 · coe-principles-remedies
Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 — Artificial Intelligence Act (opens in a new tab)
Source-level attribution only. A precise supporting passage has not yet been recorded.

Related concepts

Audit record Supervision and regulatory review Liability exposure