Who it is for
For people building a catastrophic AI risk protocol who want to adapt the four-phase emergency response cycle and add an EU scientific-advice layer.
AI Knowledge Series / expert
Crisis Protocol
Adapt the four-phase emergency response cycle—with an EU scientific-advice layer on top—into your organization's catastrophic AI risk protocol.
The problem
It starts with the situation you're actually in.
You'll learn exactly what separates a catastrophic AI incident from ordinary model failure—the line between reputational, operational, and systemic harm. And you'll see why standard incident-response and risk-register practices break down under fast-moving, low-probability, high-consequence AI events, and why the four-phase emergency model is built to hold.
Picture the moment a board-level risk committee asks for evidence that your catastrophic AI risk protocol exists. Not the policy document—the capability. You'll close that gap between an approved artifact and a living function.
Outcomes
What you'll be able to do.
Stop Losing Hours Before You Admit It's a Crisis
When a model-serving cluster starts returning outputs that violate a policy you thought was enforced at inference time, you'll recognize it fast—instead of seeing the 02:14 spike in flagged responses and writing it off as a bad deploy.
Tell, Early, Whether This Is a Catastrophe
You'll know what a strong technical team should actually do in the first hour of a serious AI incident—because most of it isn't containment. When a dashboard shows an autonomous agent issuing API calls at ten times its baseline rate against endpoints it has never touched, you'll read the signal correctly.
When "It's Over" Is the Most Dangerous Sentence
You'll resist the pull to declare recovery too soon—pressure that comes from the same place the crisis did: people are exhausted, executives want the all-clear for customers and the board, and live containment work has stopped producing alarms.
You Test the Seams, Not the Components
Your protocol exists on paper—triggers, severity tiers, a crisis cell with named decision rights, containment sequences, regulatory clocks, recovery thresholds. You'll test the seams between them, not just the parts, and find where a complete-looking document fails under load.
Inside the book
A closer look at the work inside.
Is your current setup ready?
Score each item honestly: present and tested (2), present but untested (1), absent (0). A written definition of what makes an AI event catastrophic rather than merely severe. Activation triggers that fire on weak or novel signals, not only known alarms. A standing crisis team with pre-authorized decision rights, named before any event.
Translate Your Vocabulary
Before you build any operational detail, settle the words—working through it with whoever will own the protocol. Write a one-sentence definition of each phase in your organization's language. If two people define "response" differently, you've found a future mid-incident argument: resolve it now.
Advisory-Layer Readiness Scorecard
The advisory layer fails quietly. It looks present on the org chart, then turns out mid-incident to be a group chat nobody is authorized to convene. Score your function against the five criteria before you need it—rating each 0 (absent), 1 (partial or untested), or 2 (reliable under time pressure).
When the Phase Names Do the Arguing checklist
- Write your one-sentence definition of each phase in your organization's language. If two people define "response" differently, you have found a future mid-incident argument—resolve.
- Name the trigger boundary between Preparedness and Response. What specific, observable condition moves you from watching to acting?
- Locate your advisory layer. Who supplies evidence under uncertainty, and are they organizationally separate from who decides?
- Check your borrowed protocol. If you operate under a regime like Ofcom's, confirm whether its definition of "crisis" is narrower than yours, whether the measure is recommended or.
Case Study: Two Protocols Wearing the Same Word
Two reference points anchor the vocabulary problem, and they disagree in instructive ways. One is the classic emergency-management cycle: in standard practice—including FEMA training and related literature—Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery are treated as core emergency-management functions.
Crisis Protocol frameworkInside the book
Visual preview
A diagram you can keep open while you work.
Table of contents
10 chapters, built to be read in order.
01
The Case for a Catastrophic AI Risk Protocol
02
Anatomy of the Four-Phase Model and the Advisory Layer
03
Mitigation — Engineering Down the Probability of Catastrophe
04
Preparedness — Triggers, Thresholds, and Activation Criteria
05
Building the Crisis Cell — Roles, Authority, and Decision Rights
06
Response — Containment and Decision-Making Under Deep Uncertainty
07
Crisis Communication and Stakeholder Coordination
08
Regulatory Interface and Mandatory Reporting
09
Recovery, Post-Incident Review, and Institutional Learning
10
Testing the Protocol — Exercises, Drills, and Continuous Validation
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Exercises, checklists & tools
10
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