AI governance: a practical guide for enterprise leaders
It's 9:47 AM on a Tuesday. A Slack message from legal lands in the security channel: "Did anyone approve the marketing team's new AI vendor? They're feeding customer data into it." Nobody approved it. The vendor's terms say they can use input data for model training, and the contract was signed three weeks ago. That moment, some version of which plays out at most organizations now, is what makes AI governance an operational priority rather than a compliance exercise.