A model card is standardized documentation for an AI model: intended use, training data characteristics, evaluation results, known limitations, bias analyses, a
Standardized documentation for an AI model: intended use, training-data characteristics, evaluation results, known limitations, bias analyses, and safety considerations. Introduced as a research best practice, it matured into a compliance artifact.
In regulated deployments, yes. Model cards and their application-level sibling, system cards, are expected by enterprise procurement and audited under frameworks like the EU AI Act, making rigorous documentation a shipping requirement, not a courtesy.