# NIST AI Risk Management Framework

Concept · [Building with AI](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/ai)

Also called: AI RMF, NIST AI RMF, AI Risk Management Framework, NIST AI framework, NIST RMF for AI

A voluntary [framework](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tech-stack) from NIST, the US standards agency, that helps organizations manage the risks AI can pose to people, organizations and society, and build trustworthiness into how AI products are designed, built, used and evaluated. It comes with a [playbook](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/standard-operating-procedure). Discussed in the [Techlahoma Slack](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/techlahoma-slack) as one of the resource links shared for a public [Techlahoma](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/techlahoma) AI [AMA](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/ama).

**For example:** A [founder](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/founder) selling an AI tool to a bank maps the product's [safeguards](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/guardrails) to the NIST AI Risk Management Framework because the bank's security team asks for it.

## Connects to (7)

- [AI safety](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/ai-safety): The work of making AI systems behave safely and of measuring how safe they are.
- [AI use policy](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/ai-use-policy): An organization's rules for which AI tools its people may use and what information they may put into them.
- [Compliance](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/compliance): Meeting the laws, regulations and standards that apply to a company.
- [Guardrails](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/guardrails): Checks and limits built around a model inside a product.
- [Evals](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/evals): Tests that check whether the outputs of a model or an AI product meet the criteria its builders set.
- [Startup ecosystem](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/startup-ecosystem): The people, money and organizations in one place that help new companies start and grow.
- [ForHumanity](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/forhumanity): A nonprofit public charity that examines the risks of AI and develops criteria for the independent audit of AI systems, written by…

## Sources

- <https://www.nist.gov/itl/ai-risk-management-framework>


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