# Establish accountability and governance for AI

- **Record type**: Obligation
- **Instrument**: A pro-innovation approach to AI regulation (white paper and government response)
- **Jurisdiction**: United Kingdom
- **Category**: governance_accountability
- **Binding**: No
- **Provision**: Principle 4, Part 3

## In brief

Establish accountability and governance for AI is a voluntary measure under the UK AI regulation framework in the United Kingdom (Principle 4, Part 3). Governance measures should ensure effective oversight of AI supply and use with clear lines of accountability across the lifecycle. The record carries 1 evidence example and mappings to 2 frameworks.

## What the duty requires

Governance measures should ensure effective oversight of AI supply and use with clear lines of accountability across the lifecycle.

## What an organisation does about it

Name an accountable owner for each AI system and record decisions in a governance log.

## Controls that meet this duty

- AI governance policy and accountability structure (satisfies): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/ai-governance-policy-and-accountability
- AI system inventory and classification (supports): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/ai-system-inventory

## Parent instrument

- A pro-innovation approach to AI regulation (white paper and government response)
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/uk-ai-regulation-white-paper
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/uk-ai-regulation-white-paper.md

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-OBL-0075 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0075; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/uk-principles-accountability-governance
- **Official source**: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-regulation-a-pro-innovation-approach
- **Provision**: Principle 4, Part 3
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: high
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "Establish accountability and governance for AI (UK AI regulation framework)" [AIPT-OBL-0075, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0075 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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