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AI Governance Step 6: Gate 2, Production Approval and the Kill Switch

The Core Reality: Gate 2 releases the system to production. The CISO confirms the Gate 1 conditions were met, the risk is acceptable, an owner is named, and a kill switch notice records who can shut the system off and how fast.
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Where Teams Get Stuck

Without a second check, what changed during the build goes unreviewed, and nobody has decided in advance how to stop the system in an incident.

How RAMP Handles It

RAMP shows the approver the conditions, the risk figures and the evidence in one view, and records the decision with the kill switch notice.

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The Situation

The system is built and the business wants to go live.

Where Teams Get Stuck

Without a second check, what changed during the build goes unreviewed, and nobody has decided in advance how to stop the system in an incident.

How RAMP Handles It

RAMP shows the approver the conditions, the risk figures and the evidence in one view, and records the decision with the kill switch notice.

What Gate 2 checks

Conditions from Gate 1 are met, residual risk is within what leadership accepted, and the owner is named.

The kill switch notice

A recorded statement of who can disable the system, how, and how quickly, so shutting it down is a decision already made.

Frequently asked questions

What is a kill switch notice?
A recorded statement of who can disable an AI system, how and how quickly, captured when production use is approved.
Leadership Action Item

Do not release until the conditions are evidenced. Next: brief the board.

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