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+# Model Cards — AI Components
+
+This document describes all AI-related components used in **Federal FOIA Intelligence Search**.
+
+---
+
+## Model Name
+
+**General-Purpose Large Language Model (LLM)**  
+(Provided via Hugging Face / OpenAI runtime)
+
+> ⚠️ The application does **not** ship or host its own trained model.
+
+---
+
+## Intended Use
+
+**Allowed Uses**
+- Summarization of publicly released FOIA records
+- Contextual explanation of document metadata
+- Research assistance for journalists, academics, and legal professionals
+
+**Explicitly Disallowed Uses**
+- Legal advice
+- Evidence generation
+- Intelligence analysis
+- Surveillance, profiling, or targeting
+- Automated decision-making
+
+---
+
+## Training Data Summary
+
+- Model training data is **external** to this application
+- This application does **not train, fine-tune, or adapt** models
+- User inputs are **not retained** for training
+
+---
+
+## Input Data Constraints
+
+- Public FOIA metadata
+- Optional, user-approved PDF text extraction
+- User-supplied questions only
+
+**No ingestion of:**
+- Private data
+- Classified information
+- Authentication-protected materials
+
+---
+
+## Output Constraints
+
+- Outputs are explicitly labeled as AI-generated
+- Outputs are citation-anchored
+- Outputs include an integrity hash
+- Outputs are not persisted
+
+---
+
+## Risk Mitigation
+
+| Risk | Mitigation |
+|----|----|
+| Hallucination | Citation anchoring + disclosure |
+| Over-reliance | Warnings + opt-in |
+| Data leakage | No persistence |
+| Misuse | Feature gating |
+
+---
+
+## Ethical Considerations
+
+This AI component is intentionally:
+- Non-autonomous
+- Non-persistent
+- User-controlled
+- Auditable
+
+---
+
+## Limitations
+
+- May misinterpret scanned PDFs
+- Does not validate document authenticity
+- Cannot access non-public records
+
+---
+
+## Contact
+
+For AI safety inquiries:  
+**Project Maintainer: Ezra Godschild**