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AI Model Supply Chain Provenance
Systemic risk GPAI — EU requires model evaluation documentation + incident reporting
—EU AI Act Art 53 GPAI obligations
Regulatory exposure — commonly overlooked:
Downstream deployer fined for upstream model change — receipt chain links provider to deployer. · Federal agencies disagree on AI approach — but examiners agree internal logs are insufficient.
TAM / Exposure
GPAI providers · Art 53 applies from Aug 2025
Insurance lines
E&O · IP defense · Cyber
Exhibit authority
US Federal Exhibit — GPAI Model Supply Chain Pack
Global leaders
EU AI Office · Hugging Face · Meta AI · Mistral · NTIA · NAIC · FTC · EEOC
Art 53
GPAI provider obligations — technical documentation includes decision logging architecture.
NTIA AI Accountability
US parallel — dual compliance with one receipt primitive.
Supply chain
Fine-tuned model inherits base model liability — chain of receipts required.
[United States (Federal)] Agency pincer
FTC, CFPB, EEOC, and DOJ all active on AI — one receipt chain satisfies cross-agency discovery.
[United States (Federal)] Federal preemption fight
State laws filling void — multistate operators need jurisdiction-tagged receipts.
[Text / Chat] Modality hook
Baseline — all frameworks apply to text decisions.
7 mandate layers (live)
Regulatory ClockCountdown to operative regulatory deadline — NAIC adoption, GSE mandate, EU transposition.Open →
Domain ClassifierIndustry-specific SAFE/CRISIS/VIOLATION with regulatory framework mapping.Open →
Exhibit / Filing PackRegulator-ready external validation — NAIC Exhibit D, Fannie QC, EU FRIA, FDA Part 11.Open →
Mandate RegistryEnroll deployers/insureds under vertical-specific governance mandate.Open →