Understanding as an Explicit and Assessable Component of Frontier AI Safety Decisions

arXiv:2608.19816v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Decision makers need sufficient understanding to make good decisions about complex AI systems. However, AI deployment decisions are increasingly made under time-pressure, and this combined with the use of AI generated artefact creation, can mean that the existence of safety cases and system cards may no longer demonstrate that sufficient understanding exists. Our provisional methodology for making understanding explicit and assessable requires the