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Model Validation

What is Model Validation?

The process of evaluating an AI or analytical model to verify it performs as intended, produces accurate results, and complies with regulatory requirements.

AI and Technology

Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as model validation. The number is how many controls name both.

What the standards actually require on model validation

Requirements naming model validation across 3 standards, quoted from the control text.

COBIT 20191 control

Starting from the business case, the requirements (business information, functional, technical and control) across all initiatives needed for the intended outcomes are identified, ranked, specified and agreed: every stakeholder requirement, acceptance criteria...

cobit-2019::BAI02.01 · BAI02.01 Define and maintain business functional and technical requirements →

Adhere to OECD AI Principles Section 1.4 (Robustness + security + safety). AI systems should be robust + secure + and safe throughout their entire lifecycle so that in conditions of normal use + foreseeable use or misuse + or other adverse conditions they func...

OECDAI-3 · Robustness, Security, Safety, and Adversarial Attack Protection →

Section 2 summarises quantitative and qualitative assessments of exposure for each material risk category named in Section 1 (for example underwriting, credit, market, liquidity and operational risk) under both normal and stressed conditions, with methods prop...

ORSA-S2 · Guidance Manual Section 2: Insurer's assessment of risk exposures →

Questions people ask about model validation

What is Model Validation?
The process of evaluating an AI or analytical model to verify it performs as intended, produces accurate results, and complies with regulatory requirements.
Why is Model Validation important for compliance?
Model Validation is a key concept in AI and Technology. Understanding model validation helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 1,016 frameworks with 316K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Model Validation?
Model Validation appears in the requirement text of COBIT 2019, OECD AI Principles, Own Risk and Solvency Assessment (ORSA) - NAIC Model Act. Across these standards we have identified 3 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Model Validation?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how model validation applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 1,016 frameworks.

See how Model Validation applies across compliance frameworks

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Written and maintained by Gerard Blokdyk, The Art of Service.