# Map context, intended use and potential impacts (Map)

- **Record type**: Obligation
- **Instrument**: NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0) and Generative AI Profile
- **Jurisdiction**: United States
- **Category**: impact_assessment
- **Binding**: No
- **Provision**: MAP function

## In brief

Map context, intended use and potential impacts (Map) is a voluntary measure under the NIST AI RMF in the United States (MAP function). Map establishes the context: intended purposes, users, deployment settings, legal requirements, risk categorisation, benefits and costs, and impacts on individuals, groups, communities and society. The record carries 1 evidence example and mappings to 1 framework.

## What the duty requires

Map establishes the context: intended purposes, users, deployment settings, legal requirements, risk categorisation, benefits and costs, and impacts on individuals, groups, communities and society.

## What an organisation does about it

Produce a system card or context document before development starts.

## Controls that meet this duty

- AI risk assessment and lifecycle risk register (supports): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/ai-risk-assessment
- AI system inventory and classification (supports): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/ai-system-inventory
- AI impact and fundamental-rights impact assessment (satisfies): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/ai-impact-assessment

## Parent instrument

- NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0) and Generative AI Profile
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/us-nist-ai-rmf
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/us-nist-ai-rmf.md

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-OBL-0113 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0113; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/us-nist-ai-rmf-map
- **Official source**: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ai/NIST.AI.100-1.pdf
- **Provision**: MAP function
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: high
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "Map context, intended use and potential impacts (Map) (NIST AI RMF)" [AIPT-OBL-0113, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0113 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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