AI Can Assist, But Accountability Stays Human
State who is accountable for AI-assisted work and how to document human review.
The spreadsheet was wrong, the customer email went out, and someone says, 'The AI generated it.' That sentence does not close the issue. > AI can be part of the workflow, not the owner of the decision. The ownership rule At work, AI can draft, summarize, classify, and suggest. It cannot hold the job title, duty of care, or customer relationship. If you use AI output, you own the use of that output. What ownership means NIST frames trustworthy AI around characteristics such as accountability, transparency, privacy, reliability, safety, and fairness. For an individual contributor, that becomes practical behavior: check…
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