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Retool Survey: Only 8% of Tech Leaders Have Strong AI Governance

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A survey by Retool found that only 8% of technology leaders consider their organizations to have strong AI governance in place, suggesting that most companies deploying AI are doing so without mature oversight structures.

Why this matters: Eight percent is a very small number when the other 92% are building and shipping AI tools anyway. Governance is not just a compliance checkbox. It is how a company decides who is accountable when an AI system makes a bad call, leaks data, or treats people unfairly. Most organizations have not worked that out yet. That gap sits between the people building these systems and the people affected by them — and right now, it mostly falls on users to absorb the consequences.

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