AI resilience

AI resilience resources and information

AI resilience is the capacity of an organization to anticipate, withstand, respond to and adapt to disruption or harm involving artificial intelligence – whether caused by system failure, unreliable outputs, malicious manipulation, misuse, supplier dependency or wider systemic effects – while maintaining critical outcomes and recovering safely within acceptable limits.

AI resilience encompasses both:
– The resilience of AI systems themselves; and
– The resilience of the organization when AI systems become unavailable, degraded, unreliable or unsafe.

Organizational capabilities supporting AI resilience include effective governance and human oversight, understanding operational dependencies, contingency arrangements, exercising, recovery, learning and adaptation.

A board meeting where all participants have their head covered by a cardboard box - showing the concept of lack of visibility.

The instinct among leadership teams has been to move fast on policy. Having documented policies on AI implementation and usage is great, however, it fails to address the main problem associated with the technology: too many organizations simply don’t know what AI is running, right now, across the organization.