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What does NIST mean by an AI control incident?

The joint guide describes an incident as a significant agent action that was not instructed by its operator or an adversarial source and that compromises a policy, control or safeguard used to define task scope or maintain oversight. A near-miss is a foreseeable or imminent risk that did not become an incident.

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NIST’s New AI Incident Playbook Starts After an Agent Crosses a Boundary

NIST, NSA and CISA offer ten voluntary practices for control incidents in frontier-model training and evaluation, from preparation through reporting.

Crashtech Editorial October 17, 2026 Development Best Practices

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