An AI governance committee or council: Which structure best fits this responsibility?
A cross-functional AI governance committee sets policy, approves high-risk uses, and owns overall accountability.
The question
An organization standing up its AI governance program wants a single body that sets AI policy, approves high-risk use cases, and holds ultimate accountability for oversight. Which structure best fits this responsibility?
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- An AI governance committee or council with cross-functional authority to set policy and approve high-risk uses ✓Correct: a cross-functional governance committee is the body that sets policy, approves high-risk use, and owns oversight accountability.
- A data science center of excellence responsible for model-development standards and broad technical best practicesAlmost right: a CoE drives technical standards but does not hold organization-wide policy and accountability authority.
- An internal audit function that independently tests controls and reports compliance gaps to the leadershipPlausible but wrong: audit provides independent assurance and must stay separate from setting and approving policy.
- A privacy office that administers data-subject rights and oversees data-protection impact assessments todayPlausible but wrong: the privacy office covers data-protection duties, a subset of AI governance, not overall AI oversight.
The trap
Placing overall AI accountability in a technical team (CoE) or in internal audit, which must remain independent. How to remember it
A cross-functional AI governance committee sets policy, approves high-risk uses, and owns overall accountability.
How many of these would you get right?
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