Compliance and Enterprise Risk Committee's (CERC) Artificial Intelligence Risk Subcommittee (AIR)

AI poses enormous potential to improve our lives, but also includes risks. Completing the AI risk assessment helps units consider areas of risk that they may not have yet considered. It also provides a shared language to use in discussing these risks with vendors, members of the unit's project team, and compliance and legal experts across the UC system.

CERC-AIR will review the results of this assessment. CERC-AIR provides guidance to Berkeley units, departments, schools and colleges regarding the development or procurement and implementation of new, AI-enabled products or services for use by the Berkeley community in teaching, learning and administration.

Areas of CERC-AIR's review correspond with the UC AI Council’s Risk Assessment Guide, which, itself, is based upon the National Institute of Standards and Technology's AI Risk Management Framework.

This assessment collects information about to what extent the proposed tool comports with the UC's Responsible AI Principles. These principles are gathered in five sections; they are: 1) Appropriateness / Shared Benefit and Prosperity, 2) Privacy and Security, and 3) Transparency, 4) Fairness and Non-Discrimination, Human Values, and 5) Accountability and Accuracy, Reliability and Safety.

This assessment is independent. The same proposals may go through one, two, or all three reviews, depending on what the proposal involves. These three reviews are not directly dependent on one another and can proceed in parallel.