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Board and executive-level accountability, approval authority, and strategic direction.
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The management teams need to understand the values, cost, and risk for adopting AI in an organization. Commitment needs to be made by the management team to build an RAI culture within an organization [104]. Leadership commitment is achieved by the management team dedicating their time and efforts on establishing ethics principles and governance structure (e.g., appointment of a chief RAI officer, RAI advisory boards) [108], as well as incorporating RAI into an organization’s values, vision, mission [105], board strategy planning, executives’ performance reviews [98], audit and risk committee’s scope [54], and ESG commitments. Leadership commitment enables organizational culture on RAI and visible sponsorship to build RAI capability.
IBM has established an AI ethics board31 to support a culture of RAI throughout IBM. Axon has assembled an independent AI ethics board32 to provide guidance on AI system development. Schneider Electric has appointed its first chief AI officer33 to advance its AI strategy
Reasoning
Appointment of chief RAI officer and advisory boards establishes roles and responsibility assignments for governance.
Governance Patterns
The governance for RAI systems can be defined as the structures and processes that are employed to ensure that the development and use of AI systems meet AI ethics principles. According to the structure of Shneiderman [104], governance can be built at three levels: industry level, organization level, and team level.
2.1 Oversight & AccountabilityGovernance Patterns > Industry-level governance patterns
3.1 Legal & RegulatoryGovernance Patterns > Organization-level governance patterns
2.1 Oversight & AccountabilityGovernance Patterns > Team-level governance patterns
2.1.2 Roles & AccountabilityProcess Patterns
The process patterns are reusable methods and best practices that can be used by the development team during the development process.
2.4.2 Design StandardsProcess Patterns > Requirement Engineering
2.4 Engineering & DevelopmentResponsible AI Pattern Catalogue: A Collection of Best Practices for AI Governance and Engineering
Lu, Qinghua; Zhu, Liming; Xu, Xiwei; Whittle, Jon; Zowghi, Didar; Jacquet, Aurelie (2024)
Responsible Artificial Intelligence (RAI) is widely considered as one of the greatest scientific challenges of our time and is key to increase the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Recently, a number of AI ethics principles frameworks have been published. However, without further guidance on best practices, practitioners are left with nothing much beyond truisms. In addition, significant efforts have been placed at algorithm level rather than system level, mainly focusing on a subset of mathematics-amenable ethical principles, such as fairness. Nevertheless, ethical issues can arise at any step of the development lifecycle, cutting across many AI and non-AI components of systems beyond AI algorithms and models. To operationalize RAI from a system perspective, in this article, we present an RAI Pattern Catalogue based on the results of a multivocal literature review. Rather than staying at the principle or algorithm level, we focus on patterns that AI system stakeholders can undertake in practice to ensure that the developed AI systems are responsible throughout the entire governance and engineering lifecycle. The RAI Pattern Catalogue classifies the patterns into three groups: multi-level governance patterns, trustworthy process patterns, and RAI-by-design product patterns. These patterns provide systematic and actionable guidance for stakeholders to implement RAI. © 2024 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).
Other (outside lifecycle)
Outside the standard AI system lifecycle
Governance Actor
Regulator, standards body, or oversight entity shaping AI policy
Govern
Policies, processes, and accountability structures for AI risk management
Primary
6.5 Governance failure