Autonomous and intelligent systems (AIS) facilitate a wide range of beneficial applications across a variety of different domains. However, technical characteristics such as unpredictability and lack of transparency, as well as potential unintended consequences, pose considerable challenges to the current governance infrastructure. Furthermore, the speed of development and deployment of applications outpaces the ability of existing governance institutions to put in place effective ethical-legal oversight. New approaches for agile, distributed and multilevel governance are needed. This work presents a practical framework for multilevel governance of AIS. The framework enables mapping actors onto six levels of decision-making including the international, national and organizational levels. Furthermore, it offers the ability to identify and evolve existing tools or create new tools for guiding the behavior of actors within the levels. Governance mechanisms enable actors to shape and enforce regulations and other tools, which when complemented with good practices contribute to effective and comprehensive governance.

翻译：自主与智能系统（AIS）促进了跨不同领域的广泛有益应用。然而，其技术特征如不可预测性和缺乏透明度，以及潜在的意外后果，给当前治理基础设施带来了显著挑战。此外，应用开发与部署的速度超出了现有治理机构建立有效伦理-法律监督能力的步伐。需要新的敏捷、分布式和多层治理方法。本文提出了一种实用的多层治理框架，用于AIS的治理。该框架能够将行动者映射到六个决策层面，包括国际、国家和组织层面。此外，它提供了识别和演进现有工具或创建新工具的能力，以指导层面内行动者的行为。治理机制使行动者能够制定和执行法规及其他工具，这些工具与良好实践相结合，有助于实现有效且全面的治理。