Lens 3 worksheet: lifecycle risk matrix

Stochastic Parrots and Beyond · Lens 3 worksheet

For each of the six lifecycle stages, note who works, who carries the risk, and who has recourse.

Question: Who does the work, carries the risk, or has no recourse?

Task (15 minutes, groups of three or four): Choose a system from a research-use description in your group. Use ChatGPT as in the case only if no description fits. For each stage, write who does the work, who carries the risk, and who has recourse. Mark the stage of highest risk and the stage where you have most influence. See the Lens 3 page.

System: ______________________________________________

Lifecycle risk matrix

Question	Design	Data	Training	Deployment	Evaluation	Governance
Who does the work?
Who carries the risk?
Who has recourse?
Possible intervention

Findings for the plenary

Finding	Notes
The stage of highest risk
The stage where you have most influence
One intervention at that stage

Transfer to the shared fields

Carry your main finding over to the twelve shared fields. You use them again in the research-use clinic.

The twelve shared worksheet fields

Field	Notes
Research use
System or vendor
Evidence source
Lifecycle stage
People affected
Risk or benefit
Severity and uncertainty
Existing mitigation
Possible alternative
Disclosure requirement
Institutional owner
Next action

PDF · Word ·Original handout, CC BY 4.0 · Stochastic Parrots and Beyond, Laura Wagner and Moritz Mähr.