Designing escalation criteria for international AI incident response: criteria, triggers, and thresholds
AI incident reporting requirements are emerging in regulation and policy, yet no operational criteria exist for determining when a detected AI incident warrants escalation beyond national handling to international coordination. This paper proposes an escalation framework to address this gap, intended as a common reference point across jurisdictions that enables aligned escalation while preserving flexibility in how actors respond within their own legal and policy contexts. We review SB 53, the EU AI Act, the GPAI Code of Practice, and incident frameworks from other industries to derive eight criteria for assessing whether an incident warrants escalation, translated into a sequential flowc...
| Authors | Francesca Gomez, Matthew Ball, Michael Harre et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CY |
| Published | 25 April 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 19 May 2026 |
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