Judgment Assurance Framework (JA): Control Standard, Architecture, and Assessment Guide

The development of the Judgment Assurance (JA) framework has progressed substantially. Recently published and available for use are the Architecture, Minimum Control Standard, and Assessment & Evidence Guide.

Together, these components operationalize Judgment Assurance such that human judgment in consequential AI-mediated decisions becomes observable and testable.

The Architecture defines a five-layer governance system, beginning at the Governance layer and extending through workflow-level controls (JA Envelopes) to the point of decision, called the Atomic Unit, representing the smallest instance of human judgment applied to an AI-mediated outcome. Each Atomic Unit produces a contemporaneous Judgment Record, which is evaluated through an Oversight and Feedback function.

The Minimum Control Standard defines the requirements for these components, including conditions for conformance and non-conformance.

The Assessment & Evidence Guide establishes how organizations evaluate and demonstrate that these controls are operating effectively in practice.

Tools are found here:

https://zenodo.org/communities/judgmentassurance/records 

I am interested in where organizations would see this fitting in existing workflows and am looking for pilots or use case studies.  All feedback is welcome.  

Tagy
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