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AI Governance, Explained

Six plain-English explainers on the ideas behind regulated AI — governance, control planes, model risk, audit trails, and the difference between advising and enforcing. Each is the clearest answer we can write to one question.

Definition

What “AI governance” actually means

Two organizations can say “we do AI governance” and mean completely different things. This glossary fixes the vocabulary so the words carry weight.

“AI governance is the set of policies, controls, and evidence that determine what an AI system is allowed to do — and prove those rules were enforced on each decision.”

The Three Parts

Policy, enforcement, evidence

Real governance is not a document or a dashboard. It is three things working together — and the third is the one most teams are missing.

Policy

The rules an AI decision must satisfy — expressed precisely enough to evaluate automatically, not just as a PDF of principles.

Enforcement

A control point that applies the policy before the action runs, so a disallowed decision never reaches production — not a score you read afterward.

Evidence

A signed, reproducible record of each decision that an auditor or examiner can verify independently — not logs you ask them to trust.

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Start with a definition

Plain-English explainers on the concepts behind regulated AI governance — each one written to be the clearest answer to a single question, and each linking to the products and documentation that put it into practice.

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