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Part V: Regulation, Ethics and Responsibility

Law assigns duties to named parties for software; ethics begins where law ends; and the developer is responsible for the toolchain's dependencies. Part V maps the instruments to the duties of developers and their organisations, treats professional responsibility and judgement, and treats intellectual property, open source and sovereignty in the toolchain.

Chapters in this part:

Chapter 24, Regulation as Constraint, maps the AI Act, the Cyber Resilience Act, product liability, NIS 2, DORA and the GDPR to developer duties (all five functions).
Chapter 25, Ethics, Professional Responsibility and the Developer's Judgement, treats ethics, professional responsibility and the developer's judgement (D1 Frame, D2 Design, D5 Steward).
Chapter 26, Intellectual Property, Open Source and Sovereignty in the Toolchain, treats intellectual property, open source and sovereignty in the toolchain (D2 Design, D3 Build, D5 Steward).

Functions in this part. Part V concerns all five functions in Chapter 24 and selected functions in Chapters 25 and 26.

The thread from the series. Regulation is mapped in AI Governance, Chapter 3, and in AI Operations, Chapter 23; sovereignty is treated in AI Governance, Chapter 6, AI Platform and Security, Chapter 13 and AI Leader, Chapter 26.

What you will learn in this part:

Which article reaches which duty
Where law ends and judgement starts
How copyright and licences bear on generated code
How dependency decisions are recorded

Part VI turns to the developer as a person.