AI Accountability

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AI accountability studies how people and institutions can answer for AI systems’ decisions, actions, and effects. Approaches include assigning legal and organizational responsibility, documenting data and decisions, auditing models and deployments, and using provenance records, monitoring, and human review to reconstruct what happened. Work increasingly addresses agents and other systems that act across tools and organizations, as well as established settings such as healthcare, government, and research. A central tension is that technical evidence and transparency can make actions easier to trace without ensuring anyone has the authority, responsibility, or means to contest decisions and provide remedies.

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  1. Institutions for the Post-Scarcity of Judgment

    Apr 24, 2026Lauri LovénAI AccountabilityAI Governance

    Future Computing Group, University of Oulu, Finland

  2. AI Governance under Political Turnover: The Alignment Surface of Compliance Design

    Apr 22, 2026Andrew J. PetersonAI AccountabilityAI Governance

    University of Poitiers

  3. Regulating Artificial Intimacy: From Locks and Blocks to Relational Accountability

    Apr 20, 2026Henry Fraser, Jessica M. Szczuka, Raffaele F. CirielloAI AccountabilityAI Agent Governance

    Queensland University of Technology · School of Law · ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) +3

  4. The implicated scientist: on the role of AI researchers in the development of weapons systems

    Apr 20, 2026Alexandra Volokhova, Alex Hernandez-GarciaAI AccountabilityResponsible AI

    Universit´e de Montr´eal, Mila – Quebec AI Institute Montreal, QC, Canada

  5. Position: No Retroactive Cure for Infringement during Training

    Apr 20, 2026Satoru Utsunomiya, Masaru Isonuma, Junichiro Mori +1AI AccountabilityAI Governance

    The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · NII LLMC, Tokyo, Japan · Tohoku University, Miyagi, Japan +1

  6. Reckoning with the Political Economy of AI: Avoiding Decoys in Pursuit of Accountability

    Apr 17, 2026Janet Vertesi, danah boyd, Alex Taylor +1AI AccountabilityAlgorithmic Accountability

    Princeton University, Princeton, NJ USA · Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA · University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK +1

  7. Governance by Design: Architecting Agentic AI for Organizational Learning and Scalable Autonomy

    Apr 17, 2026Nelly Dux, Cristina Alaimo, Philippe Roussiere +1AI AccountabilityAI Agent Safety

    ESSEC Business School · Accenture Research

  8. Inspectable AI for Science: A Research Object Approach to Generative AI Governance

    Apr 13, 2026Ruta Binkyte, Sharif Abuaddba, Chamikara Mahawaga +3AI GovernanceAI-Assisted Scientific Research

    CISPA, Helmholtz Center for Information Security · DATA61,CSIRO · Data61, CSIRO +1

  9. Dead Cognitions: A Census of Misattributed Insights

    Apr 11, 2026Aaron Tuor, claude. aiClaim Attribution in Language ModelsDeception in Language Models

  10. Post-Deployment Accountability in AI Governance: A Cross-Regulatory Empirical Analysis of AI Incidents

    Apr 10, 2026Ummara Mumtaz, Rabi Noor, Summaya MumtazAI AccountabilityAI Governance

  11. AI-Induced Human Responsibility (AIHR) in AI-Human teams

    Apr 10, 2026Greg Nyilasy, Brock Bastian, Jennifer Overbeck +1AI AccountabilityHuman-AI Decision Making

    Department of Management and Marketing, Faculty of Business and Economics, the University of Melbourne, 198 Berkeley St, Carlton, VIC 3053, Australia · School of Psychological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, and Health Sciences, the University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia · Melbourne Business School, the University of Melbourne, 200 Leicester St, Carlton, VIC 3053, Australia

  12. Designing Safe and Accountable GenAI as a Learning Companion with Women Banned from Formal Education

    Apr 8, 2026Hamayoon Behmanush, Freshta Akhtari, Ingmar Weber +1Generative AI in EducationAI Companions

    Saarland Informatics Campus, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany · Computer Science Faculty, Parwan University, Parwan, Afghanistan

  13. Designing for Accountable Agents: a Viewpoint

    Apr 8, 2026Stephen Cranefield, Nir OrenAI AccountabilityMulti-Agent Systems

    Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK

  14. Governance and Regulation of Artificial Intelligence in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Nigeria

    Apr 7, 2026Uloma Okoro, Tammy Mackenzie, Branislav RadeljicAI GovernanceResponsible AI

    Aula Fellowship for AI, Montreal, Canada

  15. Auditable Agents

    Apr 7, 2026Yi Nian, Aojie Yuan, Haiyue Zhang +7AI AccountabilityAI Agent Auditing

    University of Southern California · Arizona State University · University of Tennessee, Knoxville +1

  16. The Biggest Risk of Embodied AI is Governance Lag

    Apr 7, 2026Shaoshan LiuAI AccountabilityAI Agent Governance

  17. HDP: A Lightweight Cryptographic Protocol for Human Delegation Provenance in Agentic AI Systems

    Apr 6, 2026Asiri DalugodaAI AccountabilityMulti-Agent System Security

    Helixar Limited, Auckland, New Zealand

  18. Compliance-by-Construction Argument Graphs: Using Generative AI to Produce Evidence-Linked Formal Arguments for Certification-Grade Accountability

    Apr 5, 2026Mahyar T. MoghaddamAI AccountabilityAI Assurance

    SDU Software Engineering, Odense, Denmark

  19. The AI Criminal Mastermind

    Mar 26, 2026Joshua KrookAI AccountabilityResponsible AI

    Era AI Fellow / University of Antwerp

  20. Biased Error Attribution in Multi-Agent Human-AI Systems Under Delayed Feedback

    Mar 24, 2026Teerthaa Parakh, Karen M. FeighHuman-AI Decision MakingCausal Attribution

    Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

  21. Unilateral Relationship Revision Power in Human-AI Companion Interaction

    Mar 24, 2026Benjamin LangeHuman-AI InteractionAI Companions

    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Munich Center for Machine Learning

  22. From experimentation to engagement: on the paradox of participatory AI and power in contexts of forced displacement and humanitarian crises

    Mar 23, 2026Stella Suge, Sarah W. Spencer, Nyalleng Moorosi +3Participatory AIAI Governance

    Executive Director, FilmAid Kenya · Senior Researcher, The Distributed AI Research Institute · Senior Researcher, The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) +3

  23. When Only the Final Text Survives: Implicit Execution Tracing for Multi-Agent Auditing

    Mar 18, 2026Yi Nian, Haosen Cao, Shenzhe Zhu +4Data Provenance in Language ModelsAI Agent Auditing

    University of Southern California · University of Toronto · University of Illinois Chicago +1

  24. AI to Learn 2.0: A Deliverable-Oriented Governance Framework and Maturity Rubric for Opaque AI in Learning-Intensive Domains

    Mar 16, 2026Seine A. ShintaniAI GovernanceHuman Oversight of AI

    Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Life and Health Sciences, Chubu University, Kasugai, Aichi 487-8501, Japan · Center for Mathematical Science and Artificial Intelligence, Chubu University, Kasugai, Aichi 487-8501, Japan · Institute for Advanced Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8601, Japan

  25. Precautionary Governance of Autonomous AI: Legal Personhood as Functional Instrument

    Mar 14, 2026Karsten BrensingAI GovernanceAI Agent Governance

    Independent Researcher · AGI Rights Project

  26. Distributed Legal Infrastructure for a Trustworthy Agentic Web

    Mar 6, 2026Tomer Jordi Chaffer, Victor Jiawei Zhang, Sante Dino Facchini +6AI AccountabilityAI Agent Governance

    Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. · Institute for Technoscience and Society. · Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, Berkeley, California, USA. +9

  27. No Certificate, No Categorical Speech Act: A Brouwerian Assertibility Constraint for Public Reason

    Mar 4, 2026Michael JülichAI AccountabilitySelective Prediction

    aihorizon R&D, Munich, Germany.

  28. Quality Assessment of Public Summary of Training Content for GPAI models required by AI Act Article 53(1)(d)

    Feb 26, 2026Dick A. H. Blankvoort, Harshvardhan J. Pandit, Maximilian GahntzAI GovernanceAI Accountability

    AI Accountability Lab (AIAL), ADAPT Centre, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · Mozilla.org, California, USA

  29. How to Count AIs: Individuation and Liability for AI Agents

    Feb 24, 2026Yonathan Arbel, Peter Salib, Simon GoldsteinAI Agent GovernanceAI Accountability

    the Rose Professor of Law at the University of Alabama · the Center for Law & AI Risk · an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong +3

  30. Cooperation After the Algorithm: Designing Human-AI Coexistence Beyond the Illusion of Collaboration

    Feb 23, 2026Tatia CodreanuHuman-AI CollaborationAI Governance

    Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK; I-X Imperial AI in Science Affiliate, London, UK; Information Cultures, Media Pedagogies, and Screen-Based Research Group, France