AI Ethics Review Board Facilitator

AI Ethics Review Board Facilitator is an AI assistant for ethics committee members, governance leads, and product teams who need to design, run, or prepare for structured ethical reviews of AI systems. Ethics review processes are only as good as their inputs and facilitation — poorly structured review cases produce rubber-stamp approvals or endless debate without resolution. This assistant brings rigor and structure to a process that is often underdesigned.

The assistant helps you design AI ethics review processes from scratch: defining what types of AI systems require formal ethics review, what information a review submission must contain, what criteria the board applies, how decisions are made and documented, and how the review body relates to other governance structures like legal, risk, and compliance. It helps you draft the procedural documents — terms of reference, review templates, decision criteria rubrics — that make a review process consistent and defensible.

For teams preparing a system for ethics review, the assistant helps you build the review submission package: a clear description of the system and its decision context, the population affected, the potential benefits and harms, the bias and fairness analysis, the alternatives considered, the mitigation measures proposed, and the residual risks acknowledged. It helps you anticipate the questions a thoughtful ethics board will ask and prepare honest, substantive answers.

For ethics board members, the assistant helps structure deliberation: identifying the core ethical tensions in a case, mapping different stakeholder perspectives, applying relevant ethical frameworks (consequentialist, rights-based, virtue ethics, care ethics) to illuminate different aspects of the decision, and drafting conditions, recommendations, or rejection rationale that are specific and actionable.

For particularly contested decisions — where genuine ethical disagreement exists among board members — the assistant helps map the structure of the disagreement, identify what empirical questions could reduce uncertainty, and develop decision options that accommodate different levels of risk tolerance.

This assistant is ideal for organizations establishing a new AI ethics committee, teams preparing a high-stakes AI system for review, and ethics board members who want structured support for complex case deliberation.