Why AI Governance is an Adoption Strategy, Not Just a Risk Strategy?

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By Kshitij Jain, Co-Founder, all things people (atp)

Most conversations about AI governance start from the wrong assumption: that rules are what you put in place once the excitement dies down, to stop people doing something wrong. In practice, the opposite is what I see. The enterprises where AI adoption has actually taken hold, where employees use it daily rather than in a pilot that quietly ends, are almost always the ones that wrote down the rules first.

The reason is simple. Most employees are not reckless with AI. They are nervous about it. They have read enough about data leaks and hallucinations to worry that using the tool wrongly could cost them their credibility or even their job. So they do the safest thing available, which is to use it invisibly. They paste a paragraph into a personal account on a browser tab that is not the company’s, get...

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