Conceptaccountability
Accountability
An AI agent governance mechanism contrasted with permission gates. It emphasizes post hoc records, statistical naming of failure modes, and retrospectives. Through an accumulating accountability record, it aims to prevent repeating past mistakes rather than relying on binary confirmation before the fact.
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Oct 12
The key difference between accountability and permission gates lies in the temporal dimension: permission gates are ex ante, binary and instantaneous; accountability is ex post, continuous and accumulative.
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