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This Concept Note provides a neutral, descriptive framing for the domain name AISafetyCase.com. It outlines how the expression “AI safety case” can be used as a durable label for an inspection-ready argument and evidence bundle supporting deployment decisions for high-risk and frontier AI systems.

AISafetyCase.com is not a regulator, not a certification body, and not affiliated with any lab, standard setter, or public authority. It does not issue approvals, ratings, seals, or compliance determinations. It is a descriptive digital asset. Any future resource, template library, or observatory operating under this banner would be designed and governed solely by its acquirer.

What an AI safety case is

In safety-critical engineering, a safety case is designed to make a safety argument explicit, reviewable, and evidence-backed. Applied to AI, an “AI safety case” can be described as a structured dossier that:

States claims about safety properties (what must hold in an operational context).
Explains the argument (why the claims are justified given assumptions and mitigations).
Links evidence (evaluations, red-teaming, monitoring plans, governance reviews, incident handling, security controls).
Supports a decision (go/no-go, staged release, scope restrictions, residual risk acceptance).

This framing is intentionally vendor-neutral and focuses on the artifact a third party can inspect, rather than any product or proprietary method.

Claims - Arguments - Evidence (CAE)

A common way to make a safety case inspectable is the CAE structure: claims, arguments, and evidence. The goal is to prevent “trust by narrative” by forcing a traceable link from a claim to an argument strategy and to concrete evidence.

Top claim: the system is safe to deploy for a defined operational context and set of constraints.
Sub-claims: e.g., capability limits, misuse resistance, monitoring, governance, security, incident response.
Argument strategy: why the evidence is sufficient, what assumptions apply, and what residual risks remain.
Evidence types: test reports, red-team findings, eval suites, monitoring metrics, review minutes, controls, audits.

Why “inability” patterns matter

A particularly inspection-friendly pattern is the inability argument, which attempts to justify that a model cannot reliably perform a prohibited harmful behavior (or cannot do so above a defined threshold) under specified conditions. This pattern is attractive because it:

Forces a precise definition of the prohibited behavior and the operational context.
Requires evidence that is measurable (evaluations, adversarial testing, monitoring and controls).
Makes residual risk explicit (assumptions, boundaries, and failure modes).

AISafetyCase.com is intended to be a neutral banner where such patterns can be documented, referenced, and compared using authoritative sources.

Safety case reviews as a release gate

In frontier AI governance, the relevant question is often not “is there documentation?” but “is there a reviewable safety argument and evidence, tied to a decision and a defined scope of deployment?” A safety case can serve as a shared object for:

Pre-deployment review: deciding conditions for release, staged rollout, capability restrictions, or monitoring requirements.
Ongoing updates: revising claims and evidence when models, data, or threat environments change.
Third-party scrutiny: enabling audit, procurement assessment, and insurer/risk review without implying certification.

Descriptive reporting vs decision-grade argument

A model card (or similar reporting artifact) is typically descriptive: what the model is, how it was trained, and broad limitations. A safety case is decision-grade: why it is acceptable to deploy the system in a defined context, supported by explicit arguments and evidence.

Durability requires updates

For long-lived systems, a safety case cannot be a one-off PDF. It must support updates as models, mitigations, evaluation suites, incidents, and operational contexts evolve. A “dynamic safety case” approach strengthens durability by treating the safety case as a managed artifact:

Versioned claims and evidence, with traceability and change control.
Explicit triggers for updates (model changes, new threats, incidents, capability discoveries).
Clear status labeling (draft, reviewed, superseded) without implying approval or certification.

Speaking the language of risk frameworks

Without claiming compliance, an AI safety case can map to the language buyers already use:

NIST AI RMF: governance and risk management functions (govern, map, measure, manage).
EU AI Act documentation: technical documentation expectations for high-risk systems (structure for assessability).
ISO/IEC 42001: AI management system vocabulary (governance, accountability, lifecycle controls).

The intent is interoperability of language, not to claim legal status or certification.

Authoritative sources (selected)

References are provided for factual grounding and terminology only. AISafetyCase.com is not affiliated with any of these organisations.

Focused on the domain name only

A typical acquisition process: contact and NDA - strategic discussion - formal offer - escrow - domain transfer. Unless explicitly agreed otherwise, the transaction covers only the AISafetyCase.com domain name.

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