GOVGOV-006 — Audit and Assurance Gaps
AI Opacity: High-Dimensional Models Resist Human-Scale Explanation
4/5Sector: OtherGeography: GlobalStage: OperateIngested: —
Executive Summary
Machine learning systems optimise across dimensions that human reasoning cannot interpret, producing decisions that are structurally unexplainable rather than merely undocumented. Governments and boards cannot discharge accountability obligations when the logic of automated decisions is inaccessible by design.
Domain
Governance & Compliance
Blindspots in accountability, regulatory compliance, ethics, risk management, data governance, and audit.
Source
MIT AI Risk Repository — An Exploratory Diagnosis of Artificial Intelligence Risks for a Responsible Governance (Teixeira2022) ↗https://airisk.mit.edu/
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