{
  "id": 2420,
  "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/12/directly-responsible-individuals",
  "title": "Directly Responsible Individuals (DRI)",
  "summary": "Directly Responsible Individuals (DRI) I went looking for a definition of \"Directly Responsible Individuals\" and the best I found was in the GitLab handbook. Apparently the term originated at Apple, where it's used to describe the person who is \"ultimately accountable for the success or failure of a specific project, initiative, or activity\". I've been thinking about this term recently in the context of LLM-powered agents and how they fit into human organizations. I don't think an agent should e",
  "authors": null,
  "category": "org",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy,transparency",
  "orgs": "apple",
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-12T23:57:14.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:11:46.979Z",
  "source_slug": "x-simon-willisons-weblog",
  "source_name": "Simon Willisons Weblog",
  "source_homepage": "https://simonwillison.net",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/2420",
  "original_url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/12/directly-responsible-individuals",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}