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Layered AI ethics and governance: corporate codes and public instruments in the AI era

Aug 2026 · AI and Ethics · Vol 6 · 0 citations · 27 references
Computer Science

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This paper advances a layered ethics-stack perspective and argues that AI governance should be evaluated not only by the presence of principles, but also by the distribution of operational controls, positive commitments, and enforceable constraints across institutional layers.

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