  In this paper we focus on artificial intelligence (AI) for governance, not
governance for AI, and on just one aspect of governance, namely ethics audit.
Different kinds of ethical audit bots are possible, but who makes the choices
and what are the implications? In this paper, we do not provide
ethical/philosophical solutions, but rather focus on the technical aspects of
what an AI-based solution for validating the ethical soundness of a target
system would be like. We propose a system that is able to conduct an ethical
audit of a target system, given certain socio-technical conditions. To be more
specific, we propose the creation of a bot that is able to support
organisations in ensuring that their software development lifecycles contain
processes that meet certain ethical standards.
