Research paper
AI Governance Is Not Enough to Prove Responsibility
Canonical public research edition · Version 1.0 · 2026 · Not peer reviewed
La Touche Academy Ltd · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21848724
Research profile
Raphael A. La Touche
Independent researcher and originator of Responsibility Infrastructure.
- Position
- Founder, La Touche
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Identifier
- ORCID 0009-0000-2943-5786
Research position
Raphael A. La Touche is an independent researcher working on operational responsibility, AI governance, evidence, human responsibility and interoperability. He originated Responsibility Infrastructure, an architecture for making operational responsibility provable across organisational and system boundaries.
He is the founder of La Touche and developer of L-SCAN, a bounded diagnostic method for identifying gaps in the reconstructability of operational responsibility.
Research focus
- Operational Responsibility Gap
- Responsibility Infrastructure
- AI governance and accountability
- Responsibility evidence and interoperability
- Organisational and system handovers
Selected work
Current evidence position
The published work is conceptual and testable. It defines a bounded hypothesis and a research agenda; it does not establish that the Operational Responsibility Gap is widespread or that Responsibility Infrastructure is necessary or effective.
Current evidence consists of conceptual analysis, public protocol materials and internal prototype work. Independent evaluation, regulatory recognition, empirical effectiveness, broad adoption and external reliance remain to be established.
Identifiers and institutional relationships
- Research identifier
- ORCID 0009-0000-2943-5786
- Founder
- La Touche
- Publication affiliation
- La Touche Academy Ltd, London, United Kingdom