Governance-Centric Framework for Trustworthy and Ethical Autonomous Decision-Making in Organizational Systems

Savita Arya, Bharadwaja K, Lavanya Addepalli, Vidya Sagar S D, Jaime Lloret, Bhavsingh Maloth

2025

Abstract

Organizations rapidly adopting autonomous decision-making systems, ethical alignment with stakeholders, the building of trust and compliance through governance has become an increasingly important challenge. In this paper we proffer the GRAID Framework (Governance-Risk-Aligned Intelligent Decisioning), a novel, multi-layered architecture which inter alia, brings together the AI decision making with rules of form governance, ethical constraints and trust modelling. A multi objective loss function is proposed, that penalizes ethical violations, governance risks, and trust deviations in real time and combined with a proposed constraint‐aware neural learning that will be careful of constraint violations. To validate the framework, we developed a comprehensive synthetic dataset that simulates enterprise decisions in the HR, finance and procurement domains. Results from experiments show while GRAID has similarly competitive accuracy (81.5%), it outperforms base models, i.e. Logistic Regression and Decision Trees in ethical compliance (+19.7%), governance risk reduction (−59.1%) and stakeholder trust (+36.9%). The results of these findings show that GRAID is a strong and ethical AI solution for enterprise level autonomy in regulated environments.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Arya S., K B., Addepalli L., S D V., Lloret J. and Maloth B. (2025). Governance-Centric Framework for Trustworthy and Ethical Autonomous Decision-Making in Organizational Systems. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Research and Development in Information, Communication, and Computing Technologies - ICRDICCT`25; ISBN 978-989-758-777-1, SciTePress, pages 184-192. DOI: 10.5220/0013893900004919

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icrdicct`2525,
author={Savita Arya and Bharadwaja K and Lavanya Addepalli and Vidya Sagar S D and Jaime Lloret and Bhavsingh Maloth},
title={Governance-Centric Framework for Trustworthy and Ethical Autonomous Decision-Making in Organizational Systems},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Research and Development in Information, Communication, and Computing Technologies - ICRDICCT`25},
year={2025},
pages={184-192},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013893900004919},
isbn={978-989-758-777-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Research and Development in Information, Communication, and Computing Technologies - ICRDICCT`25
TI - Governance-Centric Framework for Trustworthy and Ethical Autonomous Decision-Making in Organizational Systems
SN - 978-989-758-777-1
AU - Arya S.
AU - K B.
AU - Addepalli L.
AU - S D V.
AU - Lloret J.
AU - Maloth B.
PY - 2025
SP - 184
EP - 192
DO - 10.5220/0013893900004919
PB - SciTePress