From the course: Building Trustworthy AI Systems: Transparency, Explainability, and Control with ISO/IEC TR 24028

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Responsibility, accountability, and governance (Clause 7.1)

Responsibility, accountability, and governance (Clause 7.1)

- [Instructor] Often when consulting with organizations concerning what they perceive to be technical challenges they are experiencing, I will quickly discover that their challenges are not related to technology, but to a lack of governance in managing that technology. If you boil the expectations and activities of governance down to their essential elements, they are the assignment of roles and responsibilities to decision makers and the accountability for those decisions. The governing body of an organization is not only responsible for establishing oversight for decision makers within the organization, but is also ultimately accountable for those decisions. Responsibility is what is assigned before a decision is made, and accountability is what is due after a decision is made. While AI systems are designed to imitate human rationale intelligence, iSO 38507 cautions governing body members from an anthropomorphizing AI systems and attributing to them characteristics such as actual…

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