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Accountability is assigned without the authority needed to exercise it.
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AI Governance Beyond Compliance
AI governance becomes operational when policy, risk, oversight, and regulation are connected to explicit decision authority and accountable records.
Why this topic matters
Compliance establishes obligations, but organizations still need to decide who may accept risk, authorize deployment, override AI, and own the consequences of AI-mediated decisions.
Problem structure
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Human oversight is required without defining the decisions humans must actually own.
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Policies and risk registers remain disconnected from operational decisions and evidence.
Core concepts
Decision Design sits beneath governance mechanisms by specifying legitimate judgment authority. Boundaries and logs turn oversight requirements into operating infrastructure.
Decision Design
Decision Design is Ryoji Morii's judgment architecture framework for deliberately structuring authority and accountability in human-AI systems.
Judgment Architecture
Judgment Architecture is the institutional arrangement through which judgment authority is allocated, exercised, transferred, recorded, and reviewed.
Decision Logs
Decision Logs are accountability infrastructure connecting judgment, authority, evidence, execution, and outcome across a decision lifecycle.
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