OWASP AI Testing Guide

The OWASP AI Testing Guide v1 is officially released, marking the first open, community-driven standard for trustworthiness testing of AI systems. This guide establishes a practical, technology-agnostic methodology to verify that AI systems behave safely and as intended, addressing the critical need for standardized assessment in high-stakes AI deployments.

Key Features:

• Comprehensive Trustworthiness Testing: Extends beyond traditional security to cover broader trustworthiness properties required for responsible and regulatory-aligned AI.
• Unified Methodology: Provides a standardized and repeatable approach for evaluating AI systems.
• Multidisciplinary Focus: Addresses unique AI risks such as adversarial manipulation (prompt injection, jailbreaks), bias and fairness failures, sensitive information leakage, hallucinations, data/model poisoning, and misalignment with user intent.
• Layered Assessment: Offers repeatable test cases across the AI Application Layer, AI Model Layer, AI Infrastructure Layer, and AI Data Layer.
• Practical Framework: Operationalizes principles of AI trustworthiness into a actionable testing framework, grounded in real attack patterns and emerging global standards.

Use Cases:

• Verifying the safety and intended behavior of AI systems in critical sectors like healthcare, finance, and public services.
• Conducting specialized security assessments to protect AI systems from subtle adversarial attacks.
• Ensuring AI risks are systematically addressed throughout the product development lifecycle by developers, architects, data analysts, researchers, auditors, and risk officers.
• Establishing a foundation for maintaining trust in autonomous and semi-autonomous AI systems.