Please briefly describe your organization’s decision-making process for deploying an AI model or system including: who has decision authority; what evidence and criteria are required (e.g., performance, safety/security, robustness, fairness, privacy, compliance, independent external testing, evaluation, validation and verification (TEVV) or assurance); contextual caveats or limitations required in interpreting risk evaluation metric results; what approvals/sign-offs are needed; and what safeguards (e.g., mitigations, monitoring, or phased release) must be in place to move into deployment.
Governed by the Responsible AI Feature Deployment and Operations Policy.
Decision authority: the AI Governance Committee (AIGC) — a cross-functional body of senior leaders from Legal, Compliance, Privacy, Security, Product & Design, and Engineering & Data, empowered by executive leadership. The Chief Technical Officer provides the final go/no-go deployment decision.
Evidence/criteria: a completed TEVV (Test, Evaluation, Validation, and Verification) report covering validity/reliability, security/resilience, fairness/bias, privacy, and explainability/transparency, executed against an AIGC-approved test plan; the feature must successfully pass TEVV, and unresolved critical or high-risk findings will not receive AIGC deployment approval.
Release approach: features move through Test/Stage/UAT pre-production environments and deploy via feature-flag-controlled, CI/CD-managed release with rollback.
Safeguards before/after go-live: runtime guardrails, content filtering, RAG grounding, and user-facing disclaimers; human oversight of high-risk interactions with Tier-2 escalation; continuous post-deployment monitoring (drift, escalation rate, user feedback) with at-least-quarterly re-evaluation against a reference standard dataset; and an AI-specific incident playbook with a feature-flag kill switch.