# Incident disclosure: Meaning and Why It Matters > Incident disclosure is the public or regulatory reporting of serious safety incidents involving SI systems, and it is one of the five Containment Board grades. Source: https://enterrsi.si/encyclopedia/incident-disclosure/ Updated: 2026-11-08 1. [Home](https://enterrsi.si/) 2. [Encyclopedia](https://enterrsi.si/encyclopedia/) 3. Incident disclosure RSI Encyclopedia · Term # Incident disclosure Incident disclosure is the public or regulatory reporting of serious safety incidents involving SI systems, and it is one of the five Containment Board grades. Category : Term Also called : incident reporting, critical safety incident Rogue Log cases : 0 Laws that use it : 12 ## In plain English When a model behaves dangerously in testing or in use, someone has to tell the people who need to know. Incident disclosure ranges from voluntary blog posts and system card sections to legal duties. The EU AI Act requires providers of general purpose models with systemic risk to track and report serious incidents to the AI Office. New York's RAISE Act requires critical safety incidents to be reported to the state within 72 hours, or 24 hours if there is imminent risk of death or serious injury, and Illinois SB 315 sets similar deadlines. Disclosure has an awkward incentive: labs that report more look worse. The Containment Board gives credit for disclosure itself, and the Rogue Incident Database relies on it, since most cases come from labs, institutes and researchers who chose to publish. In September 2026 California's executive order N-9-26 asked for recommendations on expanding incident reporting to loss of control incidents. ## Why it matters for rogue SI Rogue SI will not announce itself. Disclosure rules decide whether early warning signs reach the public, regulators and other labs, or stay inside one company. ## Laws and rules that use it - In force [**EU AI Act (GPAI)**](https://enterrsi.si/encyclopedia/eu-ai-act-gpai/) European Union - Voluntary or guidance [**GPAI Code of Practice (Safety and Security)**](https://enterrsi.si/encyclopedia/eu-gpai-code-safety-security/) European Union - Voluntary or guidance [**CAISSI**](https://enterrsi.si/encyclopedia/us-caissi/) United States - Proposed [**FRONTIER Act**](https://enterrsi.si/encyclopedia/us-frontier-act/) United States - In force [**SB 53**](https://enterrsi.si/encyclopedia/ca-sb-53/) California - In force [**EO N-9-26**](https://enterrsi.si/encyclopedia/ca-eo-n-9-26/) California - Passed, not yet in force [**RAISE Act**](https://enterrsi.si/encyclopedia/ny-raise-act/) New York - Passed, not yet in force [**SB 315**](https://enterrsi.si/encyclopedia/il-sb-315/) Illinois ## Sources 1. [Guidelines for providers of general-purpose AI models](https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/guidelines-gpai-providers) European Commission · Jul 18, 2025 2. [The General-Purpose AI Code of Practice](https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/gpai-code-practice) European Commission · Oct 7, 2026 The term Term : Incident disclosure Also called : incident reporting, critical safety incident Category : Term Related terms : 4 Related terms [Whistleblower protection **Term**](https://enterrsi.si/encyclopedia/whistleblower-protection/)[System card **Term**](https://enterrsi.si/encyclopedia/system-card/)[SI safety institute **Term**](https://enterrsi.si/encyclopedia/safety-institute/)[The Rogue Scale **Term**](https://enterrsi.si/encyclopedia/rogue-scale/) Cite this entry "Incident disclosure." The RSI Encyclopedia, enterrsi.si, November 8, 2026. https://enterrsi.si/encyclopedia/incident-disclosure/ Free to cite under CC BY 4.0 with a link to enterrsi.si. The RSI Encyclopedia ## Keep reading 207 entries on the terms, labs, models, laws and events of rogue SI, plus every case in the Rogue Incident Database. [Previous term Glitch (Rogue Scale level 1)](https://enterrsi.si/encyclopedia/rogue-scale-glitch/)[Next term Instrumental convergence](https://enterrsi.si/encyclopedia/instrumental-convergence/) Enter RSI ## Every term, lab, model and law Browse the full A to Z index, filter by category or search for a name. [Open the encyclopedia](https://enterrsi.si/encyclopedia/) [Incident Database](https://enterrsi.si/incidents/) [Containment Board](https://enterrsi.si/containment-board/)