To establish clear accountability so specific individuals: What is the primary purpose of formally assigning

Defining governance roles creates clear ownership and accountability for AI-related tasks and decisions.

The question

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1. To establish clear accountability so specific individuals or functions own each governance task and decision ✓

   Correct: defining roles assigns ownership and accountability for governance tasks and decisions across the organization.
2. To transfer all legal liability for AI outcomes onto the individual engineers who build the models

   Plausible but wrong: assigning roles clarifies accountability internally, it does not shift external legal liability onto individual engineers.
3. To ensure that a single executive sponsor personally approves every operational AI decision made

   Plausible but wrong: role definition distributes responsibility appropriately rather than funneling every decision to one approver.
4. To satisfy an external auditor by simply naming stakeholders without changing how decisions are actually made

   Plausible but wrong: naming stakeholders for optics defeats the purpose, which is genuine operational accountability.

How to remember it

Defining governance roles creates clear ownership and accountability for AI-related tasks and decisions.

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