A Governance Framework for Consequential AI-Enabled Decisions and Actions in Regulated Industries
Organisations already rely on AI-enabled decisions and actions in consequential settings. Accountability has not kept pace. Warranted AI defines the conditions under which an organisation can demonstrate a defensible basis for relying on decisions made by, and actions taken by, AI - not as proof of legality, but as the evidentiary condition for defensible organisational reliance. Warranted AI is a governance accountability standard. It is not an AI ethics framework, a model explainability method or a compliance checklist. It is a Warranting Standard: a governance framework for warranting reliance on consequential AI-enabled decisions and actions in regulated industries.
Working paper in preparation. Publication expected August 2026.
Shankar Siva | Governance and risk adviser