This glossary defines the vocabulary of AI Leader, from the five leadership functions, the decision classes and the degrees of delegation to the artefacts, roles, practices, regulations and frameworks that the chapters use. Each entry gives the book's own usage in one to three sentences and names the chapter where the term is introduced or defined. Where a term is used in a sense the chapters do not support, it is left out rather than defined. Terms that earlier volumes of the series defined are repeated briefly, with the volume named, so that the reader is not left with a gap.
Entries are in alphabetical order. Identifiers in code formatting (ACC-*, LDR-*) are sorted by their letters. An identifier such as DLG-* names a pattern: the wildcard stands for the number the organisation assigns to each record, and the book's examples use NR for Nordvik Region and HM for Hansa Mutual. AI Decision Records run from AIDR-1000 to AIDR-1099 in this book: Nordvik Region AIDR-1000 to AIDR-1049 and Hansa Mutual AIDR-1050 to AIDR-1099.
Levels, modes and decision classes are defined in sets, so read an entry for one of them together with the entries it refers to. The book sets ceilings and not single values: where an entry gives a default, a delegation profile may set a lower level, and the lowest ceiling that applies governs. Legal entries follow the instrument and attribute each statement to its article as the chapters cite it; they describe organisational and architectural implications and are not legal advice. The labels observable, expected and speculation are defined below and mark every statement about the future.
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About AI Leader
AI Leader is Book 11 of The Transformed Architecture. It takes leadership as its subject and asks what happens when AI is used broadly: the five leadership functions (orient, decide, organise, enable, answer), the delegation ladder and the Level 4 prohibitions, the answerability principle (name, explain, reach), the span and the middle layer, human-agent work, the board and the management body, change and adoption as claims that need evidence, regulation (the AI Act, DORA, NIS 2, the GDPR), ethics and sovereignty, and the leader as a person, for European enterprises and public authorities.
It builds on the conclusions of Architecture as Code, AI Governance, AI Platform and Security, AI Red Team, AI Threat, The Transformed Security Architect, AI Boss, AI Blue, AI Purple and AI Operations.
chairs and members of boards, chief executives and executive teams, the changing C-suite, middle managers and first-line leaders, heads of public authorities and the politicians who oversee them, HR specialists, works councils and unions, architects who advise leaders, and supervisors and auditors.
Gunnar Nordqvist
Conceived, directed and published the books of The Transformed Architecture.
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