The Widening Gap Between AI Policy and Real-World Enforcement
A growing disconnect has emerged between the policies governments and organizations are writing to govern AI and their actual ability to enforce those rules in practice.
Why this matters: Rules that cannot be enforced are not really rules. AI policy is moving fast on paper and slowly everywhere else. Regulators are under-resourced. Companies know it. That gap is where real harm tends to happen. If the systems auditing AI lack the tools, staff, or authority to act, then the policies mostly protect the organizations that wrote them, not the people they were meant to protect.
Who should care: Lawyers · Privacy officers · Compliance · AI governance · Administrators · General readers · Policy
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