Why I Write About AI Governance (And Why It Actually Matters)

I have spent the last two decades sitting in rooms where smart people make expensive mistakes with technology they do not fully understand. I have watched boards approve AI initiatives without asking basic questions about data lineage, monitoring, and accountability. I have seen compliance teams try to retrofit controls onto systems that were already in production, with customers already affected. I have also debugged Monte Carlo risk models at 2 AM because someone assumed “AI risk” was just...