To describe the system's design: What is the primary purpose of this technical documentation?
Technical documentation records the system's design, data and controls so its compliance can be assessed.
The question
As part of meeting its transparency obligations, a provider must prepare technical documentation for its high-risk AI system. What is the primary purpose of this technical documentation?
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- To give end users a short marketing overview of the product's benefits and headline features in plain, non-technical language.Plausible but wrong: a marketing overview is promotional and is not the substantive compliance record technical documentation is meant to be.
- To describe the system's design, capabilities, data and controls so authorities and downstream parties can assess its compliance. ✓Correct: technical documentation records the system's design, data and controls so it can be assessed for compliance, which is its core purpose.
- To record only the financial cost of building and operating the system so budget owners can track the project's return on investment.Plausible but wrong: cost tracking is a business function unrelated to the technical and compliance content of the documentation.
- To log every individual output the system produces in production so each decision can be reproduced exactly for later dispute resolution.Plausible but wrong: that describes operational output logging, not the design-and-compliance record that technical documentation provides.
The trap
Treating technical documentation as marketing material or as an operational output log. How to remember it
Technical documentation records the system's design, data and controls so its compliance can be assessed.
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