Accountability
The human capacity to be held responsible, explain reasoning, and accept consequences; requires moral and legal agency a model cannot have.
Defined in 2 GAGE programs, which carry 4 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in Certified AI Practitioner: Workplace Foundations.
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 obligation to answer for an outcome. Cheap to assign, which is why it is over-distributed. One of the two nouns in the standard's definition of a risk owner, and the one organizations reliably supply.
The human capacity to be held responsible, explain reasoning, and accept consequences; requires moral and legal agency a model cannot have.
The obligation to answer for an outcome. It is assigned to exactly one party, cannot be shared without becoming meaningless, and does not move when the underlying work is delegated or outsourced.
In this topic, the attachment of a consequence to a person for something they did, permitted or failed to supervise. Distinct from remediation, which attaches a change to a system.
Where it is taught
The exact lessons this term appears in. The first module of every program is free with a free account.
- AI vs. Human Intelligence: Prediction vs. Judgment · AI Fundamentals, Certified AI Practitioner: Workplace Foundations
Terms it appears with
Not an alphabetical neighbourhood: these are the terms taught in the same lessons, ranked by how often they appear together.