Moving beyond Principles: Identifying Actionable AI Fairness Practices
This study addresses the persistent gap between abstract ethical principles and concrete implementation in AI fairness governance, which currently lacks actionable, lifecycle-spanning guidance. Drawing on sociotechnical and practice-based perspectives, the research synthesizes 60 academic, policy, and practitioner-oriented documents and employs discourse and thematic analysis to develop the first structured, role-oriented AI fairness practice matrix. This matrix offers modular and dynamic governance guidance tailored to organizational roles and their corresponding levels of obligation, spanning the entire AI system lifecycle. By aligning responsibilities with practical actions across development, deployment, and monitoring phases, the framework provides organizations with a systematic foundation for implementing feasible and sustainable fairness governance.