As AI systems become widely adopted in enterprises, decision-making responsibilities are distributed across various teams, but legal accountability tends to concentrate on the organizations deploying these systems and their executive leadership, particularly CIOs. While AI governance frameworks involve multiple functions like legal, risk, IT, and business, courts generally hold humans—especially those integrating AI into real-world decisions—responsible when failures occur, underscoring that AI spreads decision-making but does not absolve accountability.
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