Add legal and compliance plus a fairness and ethics: Which additions to the committee would most directly have
Fairness/compliance expertise addresses the disparate-impact gap, and consumer-facing product staff address the understandable-explanation gap.
The question
A bank's AI governance committee for a lending model consists only of data scientists and the CISO. A regulator later cites the bank for undetected disparate impact against protected groups and for failing to give applicants understandable adverse-action explanations. Which additions to the committee would most directly have addressed both cited gaps?
Preparing for AIGP? Take the free 5-min readiness quiz →
- Add additional senior data scientists plus an external machine-learning auditor, and add cloud infrastructure engineers to harden the deployment pipeline.Plausible but wrong: more technical modeling depth and infrastructure do not directly supply fairness governance or consumer-facing explanation design.
- Add legal and compliance plus a fairness and ethics specialist, and add consumer-facing product staff to design plain-language applicant explanations. ✓Correct: fairness and compliance expertise targets disparate impact, and product/communications staff address understandable applicant explanations.
- Add legal and compliance plus an internal-audit lead, and add a procurement manager to renegotiate the third-party model licensing terms.Plausible but wrong: compliance helps, but audit and procurement do not close the fairness-testing or applicant-explanation gaps directly.
- Add a fairness and ethics specialist plus a data-privacy officer, and add a security operations analyst to monitor for model adversarial attacks.Plausible but wrong: fairness expertise helps one gap, but privacy and security roles do not deliver understandable adverse-action explanations.
The trap
Believing added technical modeling talent, rather than diverse governance perspectives, resolves fairness and transparency failures. How to remember it
Fairness/compliance expertise addresses the disparate-impact gap, and consumer-facing product staff address the understandable-explanation gap.
How many of these would you get right?
One of 1581 AIGP questions on Certsqill. Take a free five-minute check and see your score per domain — not one number, but which section to open tonight.
Test your AIGP readiness — freeMore Understanding the Foundations of AI Governance questions
- Ultimate accountability with the senior executive: Which allocation of roles best satisfies all three of the →
- Deliver role-based training tailored to each audience's: Which design principle should most shape the program →
- Scale governance formality to risk and context: Which approach best reflects how AI governance should differ →
- All 337 Understanding the Foundations of AI Governance questions →
Part of the Certsqill AIGP question bank · Understanding the Foundations of AI Governance ·
Every answer, right and wrong, comes with its own explanation.