Question 38
Domain 4: Transparency, Governance, and AccountabilityAn organization is creating a governance structure for ethical AI oversight. Which group is MOST appropriate to identify as responsible for reviewing ethical concerns across the organization rather than managing a single product or performing a specialized technical or legal function?
Correct answer: D
Explanation
Ethical AI governance should assign distinct responsibilities to different roles, with ethics committees providing organization-wide ethical oversight while executives, product owners, data scientists, and legal teams handle their own functional areas. — Source material: Roles and responsibilities for executives, product owners, data scientists, legal teams, and ethics committees in ethical AI oversight.
Why each option is right or wrong
A. Executives
Executives are identified as a distinct role, not the body designated for broad ethical review across functions.
B. Product owners
Product owners are responsible for a product context rather than organization-wide ethical oversight.
C. Legal teams
Legal teams handle legal responsibilities, which is narrower than cross-organizational ethical review.
D. Ethics committees
The source material specifically includes ethics committees among the roles to identify for ethical AI oversight. In a governance structure, a committee is the role that fits organization-wide review of ethical concerns, as opposed to executives, product owners, data scientists, or legal teams, which are listed as separate functional roles.