Building a Complete AI System Inventory, October 2026

An AI risk register is presented as a continuously maintained inventory of an organization’s AI systems that records behavioral risks, named ownership, intended uses, data sources, regulatory obligations, lifecycle status, monitoring metrics, approvals, and review dates, rather than only traditional IT controls. The discussion emphasizes that frameworks such as the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and ISO 42001 require documented and ongoing risk management, with EU high-risk system requirements becoming applicable in August 2026. It recommends using the MIT AI Risk Repository as a taxonomy of failure modes, classifying systems across impact, failure severity, observability, and regulatory exposure, and reassessing tiers after material changes in models, data, users, or deployment scope. It also highlights shadow AI, including unregistered internal models, third-party APIs, and SaaS tools handling regulated data, and proposes active discovery through gateway traffic capture, CASB/DLP signals, and enterprise-platform integrations. Effective governance links the register to lifecycle approval gates, CI/CD controls, runtime monitoring, drift and incident records, while agentic systems require additional documentation of tool permissions, write access, human oversight, and composite workflow risk.

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