Who answers for the algorithm?
AI governance duties, accountability and oversight.
- Level
- Bitesize
- Learning time
- 2 hours
- Where
- AI and Governance
- Price
- £39
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Certificate of Completion
Overview and Outcomes.
Overview
This module sets out why artificial intelligence now belongs on every board, cabinet and trustee agenda rather than with the IT team alone. It separates governing AI from AI in governance, draws on the National Audit Office's 2024 report and director surveys, and uses the Committee on Standards in Public Life's 2020 review of the Nolan Principles, the EU AI Act's literacy duty and six plain board questions. This module examines what the duties of company directors, charity trustees, councillors, officers and housing board members mean when AI shapes decisions. It covers sections 155, 172 and 174 of the Companies Act 2006, public law, housing regulation and the Charity Commission's April 2024 position, with the Deep Knowledge Ventures VITAL episode and the OpenAI board crisis of November 2023, and closes with a practical accountability map. This module looks at how boards, cabinets and trustee bodies give real oversight to AI through direction, risk appetite, structure and reporting. It works through the Institute of Directors' twelve principles for AI governance, five building blocks, questions to ask of an AI strategy, a risk appetite spectrum from averse to eager, four places oversight can sit, four board postures and what a good quarterly AI report contains.
What you'll develop
In this Bitesize, you will develop the ability to:
- Explain why AI is a strategic, risk, rights and trust matter for boards, and distinguish governing AI from AI in governance.
- Identify the Nolan Principles that the Committee on Standards in Public Life found most strained by AI, and what they ask of AI-assisted decisions.
- Explain why accountability for AI-assisted decisions stays with named people, and what the Deep Knowledge Ventures and OpenAI cases show about board authority.
- Compare how the duties of company directors, charity trustees, councillors and officers, and housing boards apply when AI enters decisions.
- Apply the Institute of Directors' twelve principles and the five building blocks to test how well your organisation knows and controls the AI it uses.
The Modules.
2 hours of learning.
- 01Foundations: Why AI Is a Governance QuestionThis module sets out why artificial intelligence now belongs on every board, cabinet and trustee agenda rather than with the IT team alone. It separates governing AI from AI in governance, draws on the National Audit Office's 2024 report and director surveys, and uses the Committee on Standards in Public Life's 2020 review of the Nolan Principles, the EU AI Act's literacy duty and six plain board questions.39 min
- 02Duties and Accountability: Directors, Trustees and MembersThis module examines what the duties of company directors, charity trustees, councillors, officers and housing board members mean when AI shapes decisions. It covers sections 155, 172 and 174 of the Companies Act 2006, public law, housing regulation and the Charity Commission's April 2024 position, with the Deep Knowledge Ventures VITAL episode and the OpenAI board crisis of November 2023, and closes with a practical accountability map.39 min
- 03Oversight in Practice: Strategy, Risk Appetite and ReportingThis module looks at how boards, cabinets and trustee bodies give real oversight to AI through direction, risk appetite, structure and reporting. It works through the Institute of Directors' twelve principles for AI governance, five building blocks, questions to ask of an AI strategy, a risk appetite spectrum from averse to eager, four places oversight can sit, four board postures and what a good quarterly AI report contains.38 min
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Part of the AI and Governance topic, also sold whole as Minding the machine.
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- You are hereBitesize, 2 hours, £39
- Next stepFocus, Board-ready on AI, 3 hours, £69. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £30.
- The whole topicExplore, Minding the machine, 6 hours, £129. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £90.
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms