Control Packs · AI-003 · v1.0.0

High-Consequence Model Review

Keep high-consequence model suggestions visibly provisional until an authorized person confirms the action boundary.

Status: review · Review: not independent. This is design guidance; review status does not establish independent verification or compliance.

What this safeguard addresses

Separate model suggestion from authorization and require consequence-aware human review before irreversible effects.

  • A model suggestion becomes an irreversible decisionA model's confidence or fluent output is treated as authorization for an action that is difficult or impossible to undo.
Versioned applicability rule
{
  "all": [
    {
      "characteristic": "AI_CONTROLLED",
      "equals": true
    },
    {
      "characteristic": "IRREVERSIBLE_ACTION",
      "equals": true
    }
  ]
}

Decisions for the project owner

Leave a decision open when its value is unknown. Suggested values become confirmed only through an explicit user decision.

  • Which model-assisted actions require explicit human confirmation before execution?A model cannot choose its own level of authority for a high-consequence action.AI-003-Q1 · confirmation

Requirements for the coding agent

  • AI-003-R1Keep model output provisional, require explicit human confirmation for irreversible effects, record decision provenance, and provide a stop path.

Tests and evidence to retain

  • MODEL_REVIEW_BOUNDARY_TESTVerify suggestion, rejection, confirmation, stale decision, duplicate, stop, and audit behavior.
  • configuration_or_policy
  • implementation_location
  • test_result
  • telemetry_definition

Passing a published example shows that example's behavior. A coding agent's implementation report remains a claim until its evidence is independently checked.

Related guidance

  • AC-6 · Least PrivilegeNIST_SP_800_53_5_2_0 · partially addressesThe provisional-output and explicit-confirmation boundary constrains automated authority; it does not cover the full access-control program.
  • SA-8 · Security and Privacy Engineering PrinciplesNIST_SP_800_53_5_2_0 · partially addressesThe stop path and decision provenance apply engineering principles to a model-assisted action; they are not a complete engineering review.
  • MAP 3.5 · Processes for human oversight are defined, assessed, and documented in accordance with organizational policies from the Govern functionNIST_AI_RMF_1_0 · partially addressesExplicit confirmation and a stop path operationalize human oversight for this use case; they are not an AI RMF assessment.

Mappings indicate contextual relevance or partial support. They do not establish equivalence, certification, government endorsement, or complete framework implementation.

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