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# Prompt Transparency and Accountability in Organisational genAI Systems to Support Course Descriptions Improvement

*Presentation at the STS Conference Graz 2026: how the TU Graz course description chatbot is built — and why disclosed prompts create accountability.*

*Brünner, B., Furch, M., Hoffmann, K., & Leitner, P. (2026). Prompt Transparency and Accountability in Organisational genAI Systems to Support Course Descriptions Improvement \[Conference presentation\]. STS Conference Graz 2026, Graz University of Technology. https://doi.org/10.3217/w2k5d-s1w36*

**Key facts**

- **Type of publication:** Presentation
- **Authors:** Brünner, B., Furch, M., Hoffmann, K., & Leitner, P.
- **Year:** 2026
- **Published in:** STS Conference Graz 2026
- **Publisher:** Graz University of Technology
- **DOI:** [10.3217/w2k5d-s1w36](https://doi.org/10.3217/w2k5d-s1w36)
- **Open Access:** Yes

When a university runs an AI system in regular operation, the prompt helps decide what that system treats as good teaching. The presentation introduces the TU Graz course description chatbot and argues that disclosing those prompts is a workable route to accountability in organisational AI systems.

The contribution was prepared for the session “AI in public and private sector organizations: accountability, trustworthiness, transparency” at the STS Conference Graz 2026. It presents a genAI chatbot that supports TU Graz teaching staff in improving their course descriptions — the same system that is in use as the [Course Description Chatbot](https://flaait.tugraz.at/en/services/lv-beschreibung/).

The second part moves beyond the single case: in an organisational AI system it is not the model that makes the value judgements but the prompt guiding it — which quality criteria apply, how strictly they are checked, what counts as a shortcoming. If that prompt stays invisible, the assessment cannot be retraced and no one can be held answerable for it. The presentation therefore treats prompt transparency not as a documentation duty but as the mechanism that makes accountability attributable in the first place.

## The presentation

- [Slides in the TU Graz repository · PDF, 2.4 MB · CC BY 4.0](https://doi.org/10.3217/w2k5d-s1w36)

## Related services

- [Course Description Chatbot](https://flaait.tugraz.at/en/services/lv-beschreibung/)

## Participating partners

- [TU Graz](https://flaait.tugraz.at/en/partners/tu-graz/)