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Failure to warn

By Updated

In product liability, a defect in instructions or warnings about non-obvious dangers 1. For AI: undisclosed limitations or out-of-scope uses, which is why model cards and instructions for use are versioned with each release.

Developed in
ch. 20, Duty to warn after updates
Chapters
ch. 20, Existing Law
Source
1 numbered reference, listed below

Where it is used

The term is not used under this name in running prose; the sections listed under "Developed in" treat it.

  • Instructions for use

    The information a provider of a high-risk AI system must give deployers: intended purpose, declared accuracy and robustness, known risks, how to read the…

  • Model card

    Structured, versioned documentation of a model (provenance, intended use, capabilities, evaluations and known failure modes) maintained as code.

Sources

  1. [1] "Products liability" (design, manufacturing and marketing defects, incl. failure to warn; consumer-expectation and risk-utility tests). Legal Information Institute, Wex. 2026. https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/products_liability (verified: secondary)

Definitions of legal terms paraphrase the cited text, which governs. Dated statements are as of .

Cite this term

García Aibar, J. (2026). Failure to warn. In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis & Body of Knowledge (v0.5.0), Glossary. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197. https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/failure-to-warn. CC BY 4.0

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026failuretowarn,
  author  = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title   = {{Failure to warn}},
  note    = {Glossary, AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis \& Body of Knowledge, version 0.5.0},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.5281/zenodo.22956197},
  url     = {https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/failure-to-warn}
}