Agentic AI Reference Architecture

Governance & Compliance · Human role

Constitution Authoring Board

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A cross-functional, multi-stakeholder group of ethicists, affected-community representatives, legal experts, policymakers, domain specialists and ML engineers accountable for constitutional principle content.

Responsibility. Selects, ranks and revises the principles a constitution encodes.

Also known as: Principle designers, Cross-functional alignment team, Multi-stakeholder deliberation body

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Design guidance

Classification

Patterns
Human judgment concentrated at principle-design timeScheduled principle review
Quality attributes
Transparency and accountability (NIST AI RMF: accountable and transparent)Fairness (NIST AI RMF: fair, harmful bias managed)
Risks mitigated
Value judgments concentrated in small technical teamsUnrepresented marginalized perspectives

Sources

  1. Ch9.5: T. Nguyen, "Constitutional AI," in Mastering Agentic AI Systems: Guide for the NVIDIA NCP-AAI Exam, 1st ed. 2026, ch. 9.5. ISBN: 9798244538229.