AI模块化背后,责任归属如何界定?
Redrawing the AI Map: A Theory of Accountability Boundaries in Agentic Ecosystems
- 提出问责资产概念,决定技术模块与责任边界能否分离
- 三种策略:组件式、集成式、双轨制,由验证成本和责任转移性决定
- 揭示组织规则迁移至AI执行环境会积累治理负担(规则债务)
代理型AI协调者降低了跨组织信息系统能力组装的接口与集成成本,看似加速了模块化与组织拆解。然而,其输出需证据、审核、签发或可追责的能力,仍可能保持集中问责边界,即使技术接口已模块化。本文构建了代理生态系统中问责边界定位的能力层级理论。引入‘问责资产’——使AI支持输出具备合法性、可审计性、可审查性及责任归属性的互补资产。论证验证成本与责任可转移性决定了执行与问责边界的协同移动。理论识别出三种边界策略:组件式、集成式与双轨制。同时提出‘规则债务’概念,即组织决策规则从正式信息系统迁移到未受管控的代理执行环境所累积的治理负担。综合数字创新、交易成本、互补资产、数字平台治理与信息系统控制视角,提出七条命题,关联代理组装成本降低、问责资产、排他性、协调者意图捕捉、边界配置错误与边界策略、价值攫取、规则债务之间的关系。该理论解释了何时数字模块化能延伸至组织拆解,以及何时问责仍要求能力整合。通过文档处理、法律服务、审计、临床决策支持与采购等领域的结构化案例,阐明边界逻辑。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Agentic AI orchestrators reduce the interface and assembly costs of composing information systems capabilities across organizational boundaries, seemingly accelerating modularization and organizational disaggregation. Yet AI-enabled capabilities whose outputs require evidence, review, signoff, or assignable responsibility may retain integrated accountability boundaries even when their technical interfaces become modular. We develop a capability-level theory of accountability-boundary placement in agentic ecosystems. We introduce accountability assets: complementary assets that make AI-supported outputs legitimate, auditable, reviewable, and assignable to a responsible party. We argue that verification cost and responsibility transferability determine whether the execution and accountability boundaries can move together. The theory identifies three boundary strategies: component, integrated, and dual-track. It also introduces rule debt, the governance burden that accrues when organizational decision rules migrate from formal information systems into ungoverned agentic execution environments. Integrating digital innovation, transaction cost, complementary-assets, digital platform governance, and IS control perspectives, we develop seven propositions linking agentic assembly-cost reductions, accountability assets, appropriability, orchestrator intent capture, and boundary misconfiguration to boundary strategy, value appropriation, and rule debt. The theory explains when digital modularization extends to organizational disaggregation and when accountability keeps capabilities integrated. Structured illustrations across document processing, legal services, audit, clinical decision support, and procurement discipline the boundary logic.
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