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Cascading failure

OWASP's ASI08; a wrong or malicious agent action that propagates through a multi-step workflow or multi-agent system with escalating impact. The Snowball leg of REINS.

Defined in 3 GAGE programs, which carry 3 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in AI Literacy & Professional Conduct.

How each discipline defines it

The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.

Engineering Judgment and Professional Formation

A failure in which an initial disturbance at one subsystem propagates through one or more tightly coupled interfaces to affect additional subsystems, with each step reinforcing rather than containing the original disturbance, often driven by an unrecognized positive feedback loop running across interfaces that were never isolated from one another. (see Topic 3.6) treats cascading failure design in depth.

AI Literacy & Professional Conduct

OWASP's ASI08; a wrong or malicious agent action that propagates through a multi-step workflow or multi-agent system with escalating impact. The Snowball leg of REINS.

Agentic AI Governance: Applied Mastery

a failure at an early step in a multi-step workflow that propagates, uncaught, through later steps rather than being detected and corrected.

Where it is taught

The exact lessons this term appears in. The first 7 topics of every program are free with a free account.

Terms it appears with

Not an alphabetical neighbourhood: these are the terms taught in the same lessons, ranked by how often they appear together.