Continuous Explain Ability Auditing (CEA): A Governance Paradigm for Autonomous AI Systems


Authors : Anil Kumar Pakina

Volume/Issue : Volume 10 - 2025, Issue 12 - December


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DOI : https://doi.org/10.38124/ijisrt/25dec1364

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Abstract : The recent developments of artificial intelligence technologies, which shift towards more autonomy and adaptive learning, have demonstrated the inherent weaknesses in the existing explainability and regulatory systems. The paradigms of conventional explainable AI are mostly post-hoc and relatively static and rely on the assumption that the behavior of the models will be the same once deployed. However, autonomous AI systems do not stand at a single place of operation but are constantly evolving thus making single-case explanations ineffective when it comes to ensuring the long-term accountability, security, and compliance with regulatory standards. The current paper thus suggests Continuous Explainability Auditing (CEA) as an alternative to governance, while redefining explainability as an audit service (iterative, run-time, rather than retrospective) of an interpretive artifact. CEA enables the acquisition and analysis of decision rationales and behavioral patterns and evidence of policy compliance in autonomous AI systems operating in dynamic and high-risk environments. The framework can detect behavioral drift, misalignment, regulatory deviation and adversarial manipulation by embedding explainability outputs into a governance control loop, which uses risk thresholds and compliance triggers to detect the presence of all unwanted behaviors at their initial stages. Compared to traditional explainability systems, CEA puts more emphasis on temporal traceability and longitudinal reasoning analysis, both of which maintain the performance of the system and meet privacy limitations through distributed, minimally invasive monitoring systems. The practical feasibility of the suggested paradigm is explained by the case studies of regulated financial and cyber- security areas, where autonomous AI agents are prone to the strict transparency and auditability requirements. The findings reveal that CEA allows proactive control, enables evidence that is ready to be provided to regulators and allows governance at the scale of operational workflows without negatively influencing workflows. Together, this demonstrates the fact that ongoing explainability is an essential rather than a supplementary governance requirement of safe, reliable and compliant deployment of autonomous AI systems in regulated industries.

Keywords : Continuous Explainability Auditing; Explainable AI (XAI); AI Governance; Autonomous AI Systems; Regulatory Compliance; Runtime Auditing; Algorithmic Accountability; Trustworthy AI.

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The recent developments of artificial intelligence technologies, which shift towards more autonomy and adaptive learning, have demonstrated the inherent weaknesses in the existing explainability and regulatory systems. The paradigms of conventional explainable AI are mostly post-hoc and relatively static and rely on the assumption that the behavior of the models will be the same once deployed. However, autonomous AI systems do not stand at a single place of operation but are constantly evolving thus making single-case explanations ineffective when it comes to ensuring the long-term accountability, security, and compliance with regulatory standards. The current paper thus suggests Continuous Explainability Auditing (CEA) as an alternative to governance, while redefining explainability as an audit service (iterative, run-time, rather than retrospective) of an interpretive artifact. CEA enables the acquisition and analysis of decision rationales and behavioral patterns and evidence of policy compliance in autonomous AI systems operating in dynamic and high-risk environments. The framework can detect behavioral drift, misalignment, regulatory deviation and adversarial manipulation by embedding explainability outputs into a governance control loop, which uses risk thresholds and compliance triggers to detect the presence of all unwanted behaviors at their initial stages. Compared to traditional explainability systems, CEA puts more emphasis on temporal traceability and longitudinal reasoning analysis, both of which maintain the performance of the system and meet privacy limitations through distributed, minimally invasive monitoring systems. The practical feasibility of the suggested paradigm is explained by the case studies of regulated financial and cyber- security areas, where autonomous AI agents are prone to the strict transparency and auditability requirements. The findings reveal that CEA allows proactive control, enables evidence that is ready to be provided to regulators and allows governance at the scale of operational workflows without negatively influencing workflows. Together, this demonstrates the fact that ongoing explainability is an essential rather than a supplementary governance requirement of safe, reliable and compliant deployment of autonomous AI systems in regulated industries.

Keywords : Continuous Explainability Auditing; Explainable AI (XAI); AI Governance; Autonomous AI Systems; Regulatory Compliance; Runtime Auditing; Algorithmic Accountability; Trustworthy AI.

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