Systematizing “Accountability” in Computer Science

We provide a systematization of approaches to accountability that have been taken in computer-science research. Toward this end, we categorize these approaches along the axes of time, information, and action; within each of these axes, we identify multiple questions of interest. Different researchers have (explicitly or implicitly) used “accountability” to mean different things. Our systematization contributes an articulation of the definitions that have been used in computer science (sometimes only implicitly); it also contributes a perspective on how these different approaches