Assessment - 6 min read
AI Impact Assessments Explained
What AI impact assessments should cover and how they support proportionate governance.
Assessment purpose
AI impact assessments help organisations understand benefits, harms, affected groups, data dependencies, privacy, security, transparency, human oversight and assurance needs.
Good assessments
- Are proportionate to risk.
- Include accountable owners.
- Record assumptions and evidence.
- Identify controls and residual risk.
- Set review dates.
- Support governance decisions.
Related asset
The AI Impact Assessment Starter Worksheet gives teams a practical way to record proposed AI use cases, affected stakeholders, data considerations, risks, controls, human oversight and review triggers.