Designing an AI Audit Trail That Holds Up
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An audit trail exists to answer a question asked months later by somebody who was not there: what did this system do for this person on this date, and on what basis. Application logs answer a different question — what went wrong — and are built for a different lifetime. The two should not be the same pipeline. This page is engineering design guidance rather than legal advice. No logging design guarantees that any particular reviewer will be satisfied; what a good one guarantees is that the…
1Key Takeaways
- An audit trail exists to answer a question asked months later by somebody who was not there: what did this system do for this person on this date, and on what basis.
- Application logs answer a different question — what went wrong — and are built for a different lifetime.
- The two should not be the same pipeline.
- This page is engineering design guidance rather than legal advice.
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Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — ML reports that an audit trail exists to answer a question asked months later by somebody who was not there: what did this system do for this person on this date, and on what basis.
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