Data dependency: Which set of AI characteristics best explains why traditional IT governance is insufficient
Silent drift (data dependency), non-inspectable logic (opacity), and faster-than-review action (autonomy, speed and scale) exceed traditional IT controls.
The question
A deployed model degrades silently as real-world data drifts, its billions of parameters make its logic effectively non-inspectable, and it can take actions faster than humans can review them. Which set of AI characteristics best explains why traditional IT governance is insufficient for this system?
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- Cost efficiency, vendor lock-in, licensing complexity, and hardware depreciation, since these commercial and procurement factors are what make governing the system uniquely difficult.Plausible but wrong: these are commercial concerns, not the AI characteristics that defeat traditional IT governance.
- User-interface design, documentation length, help-desk staffing, and release cadence, since these operational and support factors determine why standard IT controls cannot cope.Plausible but wrong: these support factors do not explain drift, opacity, or autonomous speed.
- Data dependency, opacity, autonomy, and speed and scale, since drift, non-inspectable logic, and faster-than-human action each exceed conventional IT control assumptions. ✓Correct: silent drift is data dependency, non-inspectable logic is opacity, and faster-than-review action is autonomy and speed and scale.
- Network latency, storage capacity, backup frequency, and screen resolution, since these infrastructure attributes are the reason conventional IT governance approaches prove inadequate.Plausible but wrong: infrastructure attributes are managed well by traditional IT and do not describe the phenomena.
The trap
Attributing AI governance difficulty to commercial or infrastructure factors instead of intrinsic AI characteristics. How to remember it
Silent drift (data dependency), non-inspectable logic (opacity), and faster-than-review action (autonomy, speed and scale) exceed traditional IT controls.
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