AI Accountability and the Regulatory Horizon: ten decisions every board should understand
Directors are being asked to oversee AI they did not commission, under rules that are still being written. This briefing sets out the ten decisions that determine whether a board can answer for its company’s AI, and where regulation and enforcement now put pressure on each one.
Each case covers what is in force, what is coming, and the question the board should be able to answer. Eight rest on enacted law or active enforcement; two are labeled as probable direction. Regulation is treated as a whole, across US federal policy and enforcement, the states, international rules and the insurance market, rather than law by law.
What a director takes from it
- The questions to put to management before the next meeting
- Which obligations fall on the company that uses AI, not the one that built it
- Where the records a regulator, auditor or buyer will ask for should already exist
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