SAFE AI metrics: An integrated approach

We contribute to the field of AI governance with the development of a unified compliance metric that integrates three key dimensions of SAFE Artificial Intelligence: Security, Accuracy, and Explainability. While these aspects are typically assessed in isolation, the proposed approach integrates them into a single and interpretable metric, grounded in a consistent mathematical structure. To develop an integrated framework, the outputs of machine learning models are evaluated under three risk dimensions, that correspond to different input data perturbations: data removal (for accuracy); data poisoning (for security); and feature removal (for explainability). The experimentation of the methodology on both real and simulated datasets shows that the integrated metric improves compliance monitoring and enables a consistent evaluation of AI risks.