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My AI governance framework is a blast radius: Advice from a CEO

InformationWeek · · International · AI Governance

A CEO offers a reframe on AI governance, describing their approach as mapping a 'blast radius' — focusing on the scope of harm an AI system can cause rather than building compliance checklists. The perspective is aimed at practitioners trying to make governance practical inside real organizations.

Why this matters: Most AI governance frameworks are written for auditors. This one is built around a simple, honest question: if this goes wrong, how bad does it get and who gets hurt? That is a more useful starting point than a policy document that looks good on paper. Blast radius thinking forces you to name the actual stakes before you deploy, not after something fails. The hard part is that most organizations do not want to answer that question out loud. This framing makes it harder to avoid.

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