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title: '**system card**'
description: >-
  A **system card** is a document published by a model developer describing the
  model's capabilities, risks, and the safety measures around it — the
  developer's official account of what the system can do and how it should be
  handled.
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markdown: >-
  https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/term/system-card-db31f6d9e78c.md
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# \*\*system card\*\*

Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/term/system-card-db31f6d9e78c

Parent: [Channel index](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/llms.txt)

## Definition

A **system card** is a document published by a model developer describing the model's capabilities, risks, and the safety measures around it — the developer's official account of what the system can do and how it should be handled.

In this channel's material, the **system card** comes up in the context of a model a developer has decided not to release at all — one described as “too dangerous” [^01a0f15a-8ad2-74f5-9d59-7bdcf79e28df@123]. A system card is where a model developer puts its own account of what the model can do, where the risks are, and what safety measures surround it. It is the developer's written case for how the model should be treated, which makes it central to debates like the one explored in the related episode about a model held back from release [^01a0f15a-8ad2-74f5-9d59-7bdcf79e28df@44].