Acceptance authority
The named ladder of who may accept a residual risk: the system owner inside a product's stated limits, the accountable executive above them, and the board or its risk committee where a bright line, a person's rights, or a regulator's floor is in play. A real ladder also names who may not accept, which in practice means the person carrying the launch date is barred from accepting the risk their own launch creates.
Defined in 2 GAGE programs, which carry 3 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in Certified AI Governance Professional (CAIGP).
How each discipline defines it
The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.
The named ladder of who may accept a residual risk: the system owner inside a product's stated limits, the accountable executive above them, and the board or its risk committee where a bright line, a person's rights, or a regulator's floor is in play. A real ladder also names who may not accept, which in practice means the person carrying the launch date is barred from accepting the risk their own launch creates.
The role entitled to accept a risk at a given level, taken from the acceptance authority table. Distinct from the risk owner, who owns the work; conflating the two is one of the most common ownership defects in real registers. (see Topic 4.6)
The level of exposure a particular role may accept. An acceptance above the accepter's authority is void regardless of good faith. The authority model belongs to Topic 4.6.
Where it is taught
The exact lessons this term appears in. The first module of every program is free with a free account.
- The trust boundary: what this system may decide alone and where a human signs · Evaluation and Trust, Certified AI Governance Professional (CAIGP)
Terms it appears with
Not an alphabetical neighbourhood: these are the terms taught in the same lessons, ranked by how often they appear together.