Accountability dilution

DEFINITION

Risk class 9 of the Risk Taxonomy 2026: when AI is in the decision loop, accountability for outcomes becomes structurally diffuse across the lawyer, the function, the vendor, and the board — and the diffuseness itself, independent of any specific failure, means no single party invests in the discipline that clear individual accountability would produce. Addressed by naming a single individual accountable for the function's overall AI posture with the mandate to enforce the governance framework.

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