Why AI Governance matters

Effective AI governance is increasingly important for organizations as well as individuals, as AI systems become more and more powerful and increasingly challenge the authority of humans by making decisions for individuals, sometimes for humans unconsciously and unintentionally. This can be particularly the case with so-called digital agents or AI agents, which aim to provide comprehensive support to people in all aspects of daily life and beyond. While digital agents can be very convenient and ease the life of individuals, they can threaten their sovereignty.

Current approaches to AI governance primarily seek to establish appropriate principles and transparency. They reach their limits when they formulate general principles. The question of the extent to which an AI system has been authorised to act in a certain way for a human being in a specific individual case remains unanswered, i.e. it is not specifically addressed by existing AI governance approaches.