Jun 2, 2025
People + Planet + Parity Governance Framework
Joshua Williams
This project introduces a governance framework to improve interpretability and ethical alignment in AI routing systems. It tackles challenges like late-stage ethics integration, disconnected fairness metrics, and ambiguous accountability by embedding ethical governance throughout all deployment stages.
The framework utilizes three dedicated “Judges” (Accessibility, Carbon, and Bias) to evaluate AI outputs against WCAG 2.2, SCI, and OWASP GenAI standards. These assessments guide routing decisions and ensure ethical oversight is measurable and auditable.
Aligned with Track 2: Intelligent Routing Systems, this solution helps AI teams address bias, environmental impact, and accessibility issues in real-time, fostering safer, fairer, and more sustainable AI systems prioritizing People + Planet + Parity.
Jason Hoelscher-Obermaier
The paper surfaces relevant considerations for routing systems. It would be great to move to the implementation and evaluation stage to judge whether the system would actually work as expected and experience potential trade-offs between the proposed dimensions for judges and other desiderata for model outputs.
Amir Abdullah
I really like the idea of adding a "carbon" judge that looks also at the environmental impact. Just to ask, is it not likely that this would correlate strongly with simply minimizing the dollar cost (since larger models are expensive to run)?
Under the people + parity + planet framework, it might also be interesting to consider things like robustness to other languages (under accessibility), or say perceptiveness to emotions(under people). I think this framework is a good starting point that could be built upon further.
Anosha Rahim
Decomposing ethics into modular judges is compelling. Reliance on third party standards outsource quality metrics, which can be a strength or a weakness depending on third party metric robustness. I'd be curious how this can be translated to technical solutions.
Cite this work
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Joshua Williams
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6/2/25
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organization={Apart Research},
note={Research submission to the research sprint hosted by Apart.},
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