Human Accountability Remains Essential
The AI RACE roadmap is founded on a simple principle: artificial intelligence can enhance engineering practice, but responsibility for public safety, professional judgment, and responsible decision-making must remain with people.
Five Human Red Lines guide every recommendation in the roadmap.
AI does not hold responsible charge and cannot sign, seal, or certify engineering work. Responsibility remains with qualified professionals and organizations.
Key decisions involving code interpretation, governing assumptions, loads, failure modes, and risk acceptance remain human responsibilities.
Questions involving public welfare, community impacts, equity, and legal accountability cannot be delegated to AI systems.
People establish the limits of AI systems, maintain oversight, and retain the authority to intervene when necessary.
AI-generated outputs should not be relied upon without verification appropriate to the consequence of error.
