Documenting the design and build process: Which practice during design and build would most directly have
Documenting the design and build process, including decision rationale, is what lets an organization later justify choices and show compliance.
The question
Months after building an AI system, an organization is asked by an auditor to justify why a particular model architecture and data-handling approach were chosen. The team struggles because decisions were made informally. Which practice during design and build would most directly have prevented this gap?
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- Running additional adversarial red-team exercises against the finished model to demonstrate its resilience to targeted manipulation attempts.Plausible but wrong: red teaming tests robustness but produces no record of why earlier design decisions were made.
- Expanding the training dataset with more representative samples so the model generalizes better across the intended population of users.Plausible but wrong: better data may improve performance but cannot reconstruct the missing rationale for past design choices.
- Documenting the design and build process, capturing the rationale for key architecture, data and control decisions as they are made. ✓Correct: contemporaneous documentation of design decisions and their rationale is what lets an organization later establish compliance and defend choices.
- Scheduling stakeholder feedback sessions so business owners can review model outputs against their expectations over time.Plausible but wrong: stakeholder feedback is valuable engagement but is not the record that evidences why decisions were made.
The trap
Believing strong testing or data practices can retroactively supply a missing record of design rationale. How to remember it
Documenting the design and build process, including decision rationale, is what lets an organization later justify choices and show compliance.
How many of these would you get right?
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