We are approaching the end of the year, and many organisations have spent it writing AI policies and setting up committees. Here is what I think separates AI governance that works from AI governance that only looks good.<\/p>\n
It starts with an inventory. You need to know where AI is used: tools, features in products you already have, agents built by the business, models in your own development. Without the inventory, everything else is guesswork.<\/p>\n
It has clear ownership. Not a committee that meets four times a year, but named owners for each AI use, with responsibility for its risk and its outcome, and a central function that sets the rules and follows up.<\/p>\n
It is risk based. Not every chatbot needs a full assessment. A tool that writes drafts of internal mails isn\u00b4t the same as an agent that makes decisions about customers. Spend the effort where the risk is.<\/p>\n
It is integrated. AI governance should use the same processes as the rest of the organisation: risk management, procurement, information security, data protection. A separate AI process that nobody connects to will be bypassed.<\/p>\n
It is measured. How many AI systems do we have? How many have been assessed? How many incidents? How many people have been trained?<\/p>\n
Standards like ISO 42001 can give you the structure. But the standard won\u00b4t do the work.<\/p>\n
Good AI governance isn\u00b4t a brake. It is what lets you go faster without crashing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We are approaching the end of the year, and many organisations have spent it writing AI policies and setting up committees. Here is what I think separates AI governance that works from AI governance that only looks good. It starts with an inventory. You need to know where AI is used: tools, features in products […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[167,38,190],"class_list":["post-1491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-security-architecture","tag-ai-governance","tag-business","tag-iso-42001"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowmoor.se\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowmoor.se\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowmoor.se\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowmoor.se\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowmoor.se\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowmoor.se\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1498,"href":"https:\/\/crowmoor.se\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions\/1498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowmoor.se\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowmoor.se\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowmoor.se\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}