Owner
The one named person or role accountable for a priority. Committees and "the team" are not owners, because shared ownership means no one is answerable at review time. Ownership is about having a single person to ask "what happened?", not about assigning blame.
Defined in 2 GAGE programs, which carry 3 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in AI Governance: Applied Mastery.
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 one named person or role accountable for a priority. Committees and "the team" are not owners, because shared ownership means no one is answerable at review time. Ownership is about having a single person to ask "what happened?", not about assigning blame.
The specific role inside the organization responsible for actually sending a given notification once its trigger fires. A row with no named owner is a notice that will not get sent on time, because no one has been assigned the task.
The named human accountable for a specific AI system. Ungoverned systems are almost always unowned systems, so an explicitly unowned entry in the inventory is a high-value finding that forces a deliberate ownership decision.
Where it is taught
The exact lessons this term appears in. The first 7 topics of every program are free with a free account.
- Pre-Drafted Notifications · Rollout, Monitoring, and Incident Response, Agentic AI Governance: Applied Mastery
- Meet your systems: mapping the AI your own organization already runs · Taking Command, AI Governance: Applied Mastery
- The first decision: your 90-day AI priorities memo for your own organization (and why you will revise it in shame later) · Taking Command, AI Governance: Applied Mastery
Terms it appears with
Not an alphabetical neighbourhood: these are the terms taught in the same lessons, ranked by how often they appear together.