Campus AI Framework / Pillar 4 — Risk
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Coordination · risks that belong to no single office

Shared risks get one explicit owner

The concerns most likely to fall between offices get an owner and coordinating domains — the connective tissue that keeps nine domains coherent instead of siloed.

Why this matters The risks that cause the worst surprises are the ones no single office thought it owned. Naming one owner for each prevents the “we assumed someone else had it” failure.
Shadow AI

Ungoverned AI use — including by student orgs and co-curricular programs — on institutional data or infrastructure.

D5 discovery → D7 vendor remediation → D9 escalation
Algorithmic bias

Disparate impact in consequential systems affecting admissions, aid, retention, hiring, and public communications.

D6 owns standard → applied by D3, D5, D7
Agentic AI

Autonomous systems taking actions, with human-in-the-loop requirements and agent-to-agent controls.

D9 owns standard → D5 build, D7 vendor, D3 decisions
Data security in vendor relationships

Training-data terms, data-use restrictions, and audit rights that outpace legal and security review.

D5 defines → D7 enforces in contracts → D9 monitors
Where consequential risk concentrates
High-risk systems cluster in decisions about people — govern those first

Domain 3 (decisions about people), Domain 5 (data, security & operational AI), and Domain 8 (employment) hold most consequential systems — with Domain 6 supplying the oversight that governs them all.

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