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Purpose: <\/strong>To ensure that responsibility for AI-supported decisions is clearly assigned, traceable and actionable throughout the tool\/system lifecycle, and, that failures or harms can be investigated, addressed and remedied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Organisational \/ Technical<\/th>\n Measure<\/th>\n <\/tr>\n <\/thead>\n
A. Responsibility allocation<\/strong><\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
ORG<\/strong><\/td>\n Explicit responsibility for AI tool outcomes is defined and documented (e.g., ownership of decisions, approvals and incident response)<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
ORG<\/strong><\/td>\n Clear escalation pathways exist for issues identified during development, or operation of the AI system<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
BOTH<\/strong><\/td>\n Accountability is maintained across system updates, handover, or organisational changes (no gaps in responsibility)<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
ORG<\/strong><\/td>\n Responsibilities are integrated into existing governance, quality, or risk-management processes rather than treated as ad-hoc ethical tasks<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n
B. Traceability and auditability<\/strong><\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
TECH<\/strong><\/td>\n All outputs, configurations and system versions are logged in a way that allows for outside reconstruction of decision making<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
TECH<\/strong><\/td>\n Changes to models, data or system behaviours are documented and traceable<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
BOTH<\/strong><\/td>\n Records are sufficient to support internal reviews, external audits or regulatory scrutiny<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
ORG<\/strong><\/td>\n Processes created for reviewing audit findings and translating them into corrective action<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n
C. Human Responsibility in practice<\/strong><\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
BOTH<\/strong><\/td>\n AI-systems are positioned clearly to all as decision support tools with clear human judgement points noted<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
ORG<\/strong><\/td>\n Responsibility for follow up on issues and anomalies is clear assigned<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
BOTH<\/strong><\/td>\n Multiple layers of accountability have been assigned to provide effective oversight<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n
D. Learning, remediation and improvement<\/strong><\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
ORG<\/strong><\/td>\n Lessons from incidents, errors or near-misses are systematically captures and used to improve systems and processes<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
BOTH<\/strong><\/td>\n Feedback loops exist to ensure that accountability mechanisms evolve as systems, contexts or risks change<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
ORG<\/strong><\/td>\n Accountability expectations are periodically reviewed to remain aligned with organisational values, legal obligations and societal expectations<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Source: AIOLIA deliverable 3.1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Purpose: To ensure that responsibility for AI-supported decisions is clearly assigned, traceable and actionable throughout the tool\/system lifecycle, and, that failures or harms can be investigated, addressed and remedied. Organisational \/ Technical Measure A. Responsibility allocation ORG Explicit responsibility for AI tool outcomes is defined and documented (e.g., ownership of decisions, approvals and incident response)… Read More »Accountability and Responsibility<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-595","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiolia.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiolia.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiolia.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiolia.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiolia.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aiolia.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"https:\/\/aiolia.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/595\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiolia.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}