Model Provenance
Documented history and origins of an AI model.
How the laws define this
Both frameworks agree that model provenance refers to documentation and records tracking a model's origin, development history, and version details to ensure reproducibility. Each authority expects organizations to record the core background and training aspects of a model so its creation can be verified. They diverge, however, regarding the operational details required and the specific regulatory ends these records serve. The Konsep Pedoman Etika Kecerdasan Artifisial (Concept Draft of Ethical Guidelines for AI) broadens this scope to legal and operational contexts, explicitly mandating documentation of training data sources, the deployment environment, and ownership or licensing details to fulfill traceability, accountability, and disclosure requirements. Conversely, the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Bill, 2024 focuses on tracking model lineage alongside the training process, framing this documentation as a tool maintained specifically to enable transparency, auditing, and conformity assessment as required by the regulation.
Synthesised from the 2 statutory definitions below. Each one is quoted in full, with its source.
How jurisdictions differ
What is distinctive in each definition, binding law in force first.
| Jurisdiction | Instrument | Status | What is distinctive |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | Concept Draft of Ethical Guidelines for AI | Draft | Adds development and deployment environment plus ownership/licensing details, unlike the other which focuses on training process. |
| Pakistan | Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Bill, 2024 | Withdrawn | Adds training process and lineage to the origin and development history, unlike the other which includes deployment environment and licensing. |
What it triggers
- Indonesia's Concept Draft of Ethical Guidelines for AI describes documentation of model provenance to support traceability, reproducibility, accountability and disclosure.source
- Pakistan's Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Bill, 2024 would have required records of model provenance to enable transparency, reproducibility, auditing and conformity assessment.source
Definitions (2)
Documentation that records a model’s origin, training data sources, version history, development and deployment environment, and ownership/licensing details to support traceability, reproducibility, accountability and disclosure requirements.
Records and documentation describing a model's origin, development history, training process, versioning and lineage, maintained to enable transparency, reproducibility, auditing and conformity assessment as required by the regulation.
Questions and answers
What was required for model provenance in Pakistan's withdrawn AI bill?
Records describing a model's origin, development history, training process, versioning and lineage would have been maintained to enable transparency, reproducibility, auditing and conformity assessment.
How do the Indonesian and Pakistani definitions of model provenance differ?
Indonesia's draft includes development and deployment environment and ownership/licensing details. Pakistan's bill covers training process and lineage instead.