Compassion is not a control: What veterinary practices reveal about AI governance
A piece in CIO draws on veterinary practice as an unexpected lens for thinking about AI governance, suggesting that how care-based professions handle judgment and oversight offers lessons for designing AI accountability frameworks.
Why this matters: Governance frameworks tend to be built around controls, audits, and compliance checklists. The argument here is that something is missing: the human judgment that comes from actually caring about outcomes. That is a real gap. Most AI oversight right now is procedural. It tells you what to document, not what to do when a system quietly harms someone. If the people designing these frameworks treat compassion as soft and optional, the frameworks will reflect that.
Who should care: AI governance · Lawyers · Administrators · General readers · Policy
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