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Human oversight and determination
“Member States should ensure that it is always possible to attribute ethical and legal responsibility for any stage of the life cycle of AI systems to physical persons or to existing legal entities.”
§III.II, Principle 'Human oversight and determination'
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1- Risk management roles & accountabilityNIST AI RMF · GOVERN 1.4
UNESCO's normative requirement for human oversight is operationally addressed in part by NIST GOVERN 1.4 accountability and roles. This is a relationship of intent, not substitutability.
Reviewer: Editorial: J. Mahmoud (NIST SME); reviewed by D. Lin (UNESCO SME) · Reviewed 2026-04-22
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1- AccountabilityIEEE CertifAIEd · Accountability
UNESCO's principle informs the design intent of CertifAIEd's Accountability criterion; CertifAIEd operationalizes specific evidence requirements that UNESCO does not specify.
Reviewer: Editorial: A. Vega (IEEE SME) · Reviewed 2026-04-22
Version: Adopted 2021, reaffirmed 2024Last reviewed: 2026-04-12