Enzai: AI Governance Hub

Case study from Enzai.

From:
Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Published
12 December 2023
Use case:
Big data analytics, Data-driven profiling, Natural language processing and generation, Image recognition and video processing, Machine learning, Deep learning, Virtual agents or artificial conversational interfaces, Robotic process automation and decision management, Robotics and autonomous vehicles/systems
Principle:
Safety, security and robustness, Appropriate transparency and explainability, Fairness, Accountability and governance
Key function:
R&D, Product and service development, Human Resources, Marketing and sales, Customer services, Risk management, Strategy and corporate finance
AI Assurance Technique:
Data assurance, Compliance audit, Performance testing, Risk Assessment, Impact Assessment, Impact Evaluation, Conformity Assessment, Bias Audit
Assurance Technique Approach:
Technical, Procedural

Background & Description

Enzai’s AI Governance Hub aids organisations to effectively manage their AI governance needs and ensure that they are in continuous compliance with evolving government regulations and industry standards. It functions as a tool for organisations to view and assess the compliance of each of their AI models and systems simultaneously. The AI Governance Hub has been designed to make it as easy as possible for businesses to comprehend the entire state of their AI governance on a single, easy to understand dashboard.

The AI Governance Hub functions by collating the results of every assessment of an AI model or system that an organisation has run using Enzai’s technology. For each model or system, the AI Governance Hub will record their compliance with regulation as either in full compliance, in partial compliance or no compliance. This allows an organisation to see the state of their AI governance programme at a single glance. The Governance Hub updates in real-time as more assessments are run and the compliance status of individual AI models and systems shift.

Relevant Cross-Sectoral Regulatory Principles

Safety, Security and Robustness

The AI Governance Hub enables organisations to monitor the performance of their AI models, ensuring that these meet required robustness, security and safety standards. By providing real-time updates of AI governance assessments for each model or system in a single dashboard, the AI Governance Hub allows for effective management, providing assurance that no issues will be missed.

Appropriate Transparency & Explainability

The clear and concise dashboard of the AI Governance Hub brings clear benefits in the form of transparency, as the results of each assessment are recorded and highlighted in the dashboard. Organisations can then choose with whom they would like to share this information to improve transparency - both internally and with their customers - to improve trust.

Fairness

The AI Governance Hub performs a central role in the process of detecting potential bias and fairness issues with AI systems. By ensuring that all their AI models and systems are in full compliance with the relevant regulations and standards, organisations can demonstrate their AI is not undermining fairness in any aspect.

Accountability and governance

Enzai’s AI Governance Hub acts as the central point in the platform for accountability and governance. By enabling an organisation to view the compliance status of all its AI models and systems in one place, simultaneously, and in real-time, it provides for full accountability and a clear overview of the organisation’s progress concerning AI governance.

Why we took this approach

Enzai strongly believes in the ability of standards and regulations to ensure that powerful technologies such as AI are used for good. The need for humans to oversee these incredible systems has never been greater and a strong governance structure is essential for oversight to be effective. The AI Governance Hub tool was developed to further this aim since it is essential for an organisation to be able to view the compliance status of all their AI models and systems in a single place to ensure adequate oversight.

Benefits to the organisation using the technique

Enzai’s AI Governance Hub provides an organisation with a wholesale overview of the compliance status of their entire AI usage. This is a crucial step in ensuring full compliance with all necessary regulations and the highest possible governance standards. It provides greater visibility and accountability to an organisation’s AI usage and aids in increasing the robustness and effectiveness of governance and compliance activities.

Limitations of the approach

Enzai’s AI Governance Hub alone cannot ensure that an organisation meets its regulatory requirements. It is only one essential step of this process. Enzai has developed further tools (specifically, the Policy Centre, Model Inventory, and Compliance Assessment tools) which when used in conjunction with the Governance Hub allow an organisation to achieve the highest possible governance standards.

https://www.enz.ai/

https://oecd.ai/en/catalogue/tools/enzai-ai-governance-platform

Further AI Assurance Information

Published 12 December 2023
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