Statement 37: Establish monitoring framework

Agencies should

  • Criterion 124: Define reporting requirements. 

    This includes:

    • establishing a plan for providing different stakeholders with reports
    • for each group of stakeholders (persona), define what needs to be reported, why, when, and how.
  • Criterion 125: Define alerting requirements.

    This includes:

    • defining what information needs alerting
    • defining what information is critical to be alerted in real-time
    • defining severity levels, such as major, minor, warning
    • defining thresholds, out-of-pattern behaviour, and other triggers for each alert level
    • defining who needs to be alerted and the method of alert such as SMS or e-mail.
  • Criterion 126: Implement monitoring tools.

    This includes: 

    • monitoring the information needed to satisfy alerting and reporting requirements
    • automating monitoring, alerting, and reporting
    • implementing management information and dashboards
    • implementing role-based access to protect sensitive information and meet security requirements
    • implementing real-time alerting requirements.
  • Criterion 127: Implement feedback loop to ensure that insights from monitoring are fed back into the development and improvement of the AI system.

    This includes:

    • a decision matrix outlining guidance on what components in the AI system would need an update or refresh, such as pre or post processing components, AI model, or a RAG knowledge base in a GenAI system
    • a framework to provide and track recommended actions from the insights
    • a guideline for identifying actions to address insights, with considerations to costs, delays, AI trust, and effectiveness.
       

Statement 38: Undertake ongoing testing and monitoring

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