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System card

A documentation artefact describing an AI-enabled system in its production configuration, including the constituent models, the pre- and post-processing pipeline, safety filters, monitoring, and operational guardrails.

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· Last updated 21 May 2026

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Examples

Worked examples

Is an instance
An LLM provider's system card disclosing the moderation classifier, output filters, and pre-deployment red-team findings.
Is an instance
A system card for an enterprise copilot product describing the orchestration of retrieval, tool-use, and answer-generation steps.

Counter-examples

Looks similar, but isn't

Not an instance
A model-only card for a publicly released checkpoint.
Not an instance
Marketing material describing a product's features.

Editorial commentary

System cards (popularised by OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic for frontier deployments) extend model cards by addressing the system-level wrapper around the core model. Where a model card describes the weights and their training, a system card describes the deployed product: classifier-routed prompts, output moderation, retrieval augmentation, user-facing controls.

References

Procope et al., 'System-level transparency of machine learning' (Meta AI research note, 2022); OpenAI 'GPT-4 System Card' (2023).

Also known as

AI system card

Machine-readable encodings

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JATS XML <role> element

xml

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Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)

json

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