Real AI governance needs both practitioner capability and organisational capacity, built together through messy practice. Stop waiting. Start building, start learning, and design your governance to evolve alongside the systems it is meant to govern.
We have more frameworks, standards, principles, and conference panels than ever. What we don't have is enough organisations with capacity to govern their AI systems, and enough capable practitioners to do the work.
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As an engineer reading the EU AI Act, I see so many requirements that look rational in isolation, but put together are incoherent and disconnected from the reality of AI systems in use.
The gap between compliance documentation and genuine system-level assurance is where AI governance is falling down. Other industries learned this lesson the hard way.
Most writing about AI governance begins with failure. This article begins with the most impressive safety record of any autonomous system, and asks what approach to governance makes it possible.
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How to guide and encourage AI throughout your organisation within practical guardrails that encourage safe, secure and lawful use of AI. Part 2.
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How to create a straightforward, practical AI governance structure and policy that defines accountabilities and governance mechanisms. Most importantly, one that works.
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