Pillars

Three complementary lenses that keep AI aligned with values, reliable in practice, and beneficial at scale

Ethical Safeguards • Operational Integrity • Societal Empowerment

RAISEF organizes responsible AI into three pillars that work together across the lifecycle. Ethical Safeguards clarify duties to people and data, making decisions explainable, contestable, and accountable. Operational Integrity turns intent into disciplined engineering—design, testing, deployment, monitoring, and improvement that hold up in the real world. Societal Empowerment looks beyond the product to its broader effects, enabling informed use, meaningful human agency, and public trust. Use the links below to explore each pillar and how its drivers connect to concrete evidence, indicators, and trade-offs.

Ethical Safeguards | Operational Integrity | Societal Empowerment

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Figure 1: RAISEF's Three Pillars. — Figure 1: RAISEF's three pillars.

Ethical Safeguards

Principles that keep AI aligned with human values. This pillar focuses on protecting people and their data, ensuring decisions are explainable and contestable, and making responsibility clear. It frames why an AI system ought to behave a certain way before we decide how to build it.

Fairness | Inclusiveness | Bias Mitigation | Accountability | Privacy

Operational Integrity

Engineering discipline across the full lifecycle. This pillar covers how systems are designed, tested, deployed, monitored, and improved so they remain robust, secure, and reliable in real-world conditions. It makes responsible choices repeatable, auditable, and resilient over time.

Societal Empowerment

Benefiting people and institutions at scale. This pillar looks beyond the product to its broader effects, enabling informed use, accessible outcomes, meaningful human agency, and trust with external stakeholders. It connects system performance to social impact and public accountability.

Sustainability | Human Oversight | Transparency | Trustworthiness

Case Studies

Case Study 1: AI-Driven Healthcare Diagnostics

Case Study 2: Fairness in AI-Driven Credit Scoring

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