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AI-enabled information systems (AI-enabled IS) offer enhanced utility and efficiency due to their knowledge-based endowments, enabling human agents to assign and receive tasks from AI-enabled IS. As a result, this leads to improved decision-making, ability to manage laborious jobs, and a decrease in human errors. Despite the performance-based endowments and efficiencies, there are significant ethical concerns regarding the use of and delegation to AI-enabled IS, which have been extensively addressed in the literature on the dark side of artificial intelligence (AI). Notable concerns include bias and discrimination, fairness, transparency, privacy, accountability, and autonomy. However, the Information Systems (IS) literature does not have a delegation framework that incorporates ethics in the delegation mechanism. This work seeks to integrate a mixed deontological-teleological ethical system into the delegation mechanism to (and from) AI-enabled IS. To that end, I present a testable model to ethically appraise various AI-enabled IS as well as ethically evaluate delegation to (and from) AI-enabled IS in various settings and situations.

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The ability to delegate privileges to others is so important to users of online identity systems that users create ad hoc delegation systems by sharing authentication credentials if no other easy delegation mechanism is available. With the rise of internet-scale relationship-based single sign-on protocols like OpenID, the security risks of password sharing are unacceptable. We therefore propose SimpleAuth, a simple modification to relationship-based authentication protocols that gives users a secure way to selectively delegate subsets of their privileges, making identity systems more flexible and increasing user security. We also present a proof-of-concept implementation of the SimpleAuth pattern using the sSRP authentication protocol to demonstrate the generality of our technique.

Den här studien har studerat styrning och maktfördelning inom ramen för delegationsordningarna i Utbildningsnämnden i Uppsala kommun. Genom att studera vem som äger rätt att fatta vilket beslut samt var i hierarkin det sker försöker studien ta reda på om det skett några förändringar över tiden 1991-2021. Studien tar sin utgångspunkt i de delegationsorngar som fanns när Uppsala kommun var indelat i olika kommundelsnämnder och tittar på hur de förändrats över tid sedan huvudmannaskapet för skolan övergick till kommunerna. Ambitionen med kommunaliseringen var att skapa ett mer verksamhetsnära beslutsfattande. Studiens resultat pekar i riktning mot att det visserligen skett en decentraliseringen, på så sätt att beslutsfattandet över skolan förflyttats från staten ner till kommunal nivå, men att det inom Uppsala kommun snarare skett en förändring mot ökad centralisering av styrningen, med en ökad byråkratisering som följd. Rektorerna har förlorat mycket av det delegerade beslutsfattandet de hade i början på 1990-talet och idag ligger det mesta av beslutsfattandet på någon i linjechefsposition inom förvaltningen. / This study has analysed governance and the distribution of power within the frame of the schedule of delegation in the standing Committee of education in the Council of Uppsala. By studying which body has the authority to make a specific decision, and where in the power hierarchy, this thesis is aiming at figuring out if there have been any changes of the distribution of power over time. A starting point for this analysis is the schedule of delegation whick were place at the time when the city of Uppsala was divided in diffrent local councils. How where they structured at the time of the municipality school reform and what were the ambitions of more locally rooted decision making? The result of the study suggests that there have, in fact, been a decentralisation of power from the central national level to a local level, but that within the local administration we have seen a change that points to a higher degree of centralisation and bureaucratization, contrary to the initial intention of the reform. The school principals have lost a lot of the earlier delegation authority. Today much of the decisions lay instead in the hands of middle management at the council administration.

How will digitalization influence the role of corporate headquarters (CHQs) and their relationships with their operating units? We recently asked 67 senior CHQ managers this question. The results suggest that CHQs expect to become more powerful and more involved in their operating units. These conclusions seem to be driven by perceptions that the ongoing digitalization will provide CHQ managers with more timely and better information. In this "Point of View", we discuss the potential pitfalls of such a narrative. We also offer ideas for how to avoid mistakes and ensure that CHQs increase their value-added in times of digitalization. In particular, we suggest that CHQs place emphasis on social interactions for data to be effectively collected and analyzed, for decision-making power to be adequately allocated, and for CHQ involvement to be informed and necessary.

<p>In organizations the permissions a member has is not decided by their person, but by their functions within the organization. This is also the approach taken within military command and control systems. Military operations are often characterized by frictions and uncontrollable factors. People being absent when needed are one such problem.</p><p>This thesis has examined how roles are handled in three Swedish command and control systems. The result is a model for handling vacant roles with the possibility, in some situations, to override ordinary rules.</p>

In organizations the permissions a member has is not decided by their person, but by their functions within the organization. This is also the approach taken within military command and control systems. Military operations are often characterized by frictions and uncontrollable factors. People being absent when needed are one such problem. This thesis has examined how roles are handled in three Swedish command and control systems. The result is a model for handling vacant roles with the possibility, in some situations, to override ordinary rules.