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Ethics, consent & accountability · Working

Accountability

ELI5

Responsibility to explain decisions, respond to harm and remain answerable to affected people and standards.

Used in conversation

“The ethics section needs to explain accountability if the project causes harm.”

Pitch context

You may encounter “Accountability” in accessibility, localisation, ethics & ai conversations or materials.

Why it matters: Explains access, language adaptation, care, provenance and emerging synthetic-media responsibilities.

Sources & evidence · 8

Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.