Outsider test
The standard by which a card is judged. Name the specific outside reader (integrator, auditor, incident responder, buyer, or future maintainer), name the decision they must make, and check that the card lets them make it correctly without the author present. A sentence that helps no outsider decide anything does not belong in the card.
Defined in 2 GAGE programs, which carry 2 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in AI Governance: Applied Mastery.
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.
The standard by which a card is judged. Name the specific outside reader (integrator, auditor, incident responder, buyer, or future maintainer), name the decision they must make, and check that the card lets them make it correctly without the author present. A sentence that helps no outsider decide anything does not belong in the card.
The practical check this topic teaches for whether a datasheet or AI bill of materials is complete: can a person with no prior knowledge of the dataset or model read the document and answer basic provenance questions without asking a follow-up.
Where it is taught
The exact lessons this term appears in. The first 7 topics of every program are free with a free account.
- Datasheets and the AI bill of materials: the paperwork that travels with the data · Feeding the Machines, AI Data Governance: The Data Chair
- Model cards and system cards for your own systems, written so an outsider could act on them · Evidence Engineering, AI Governance: Applied Mastery
Terms it appears with
Not an alphabetical neighbourhood: these are the terms taught in the same lessons, ranked by how often they appear together.