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Defining organizational AI governance
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Artificial intelligence (AI) governance is required to reap the benefits and manage the risks brought by AI systems. This means that ethical principles, such as fairness, need to be translated into practicable AI governance processes. A concise AI governance definition would allow researchers and practitioners to identify the constituent parts of the complex problem of translating AI ethics into practice. However, there have been few efforts to define AI governance thus far. To bridge this gap, this paper defines AI governance at the organizational level. Moreover, we delineate how AI governance enters into a governance landscape with numerous governance areas, such as corporate governance, information technology (IT) governance, and data governance. Therefore, we position AI governance as part of an organization’s governance structure in relation to these existing governance areas. Our definition and positioning of organizational AI governance paves the way for crafting AI governance frameworks and offers a stepping stone on the pathway toward governed AI.
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- Authors
- Mäntymäki, M., Minkkinen, M., Birkstedt, T., & Viljanen, M.
- Venue
- AI and Ethics
- Published
- 2022-02-24
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 603-609
- ISSN
- 2730-5953 (ISSN-L)
- 2730-5961
- OpenAlex
- W4214629857
- Cited by
- 285
- References
- 22
- FWCI
- 50.04
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
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