Posts Tagged ‘AI governance’
Who oversees AI purchases, and what rules, certifications and laws do and do not check.
In the book: Chapter 3: Value Drift (1) · Chapter 5: Advisory Is Not Enough (1) · Chapter 7: Value Is Not Promised; It Is Proven (1) · Chapter 9: The Value Control Loop (1) · Chapter 10: The Buyer Governance Pyramid (1) · Chapter 13: The AI Amplifier (1) · Chapter 14: Who Controls Value Engagement? (1) · Chapter 15: The Value Lattice System (1) · Chapter 16: MAVEN: Controlled Evaluation (1) · Chapter 17: VIGOR: Governance and Realization (2) · Chapter 19: Preemptive Value Architecture (1) · Chapter 20: The Buyer Value Practice (1) · Chapter 21: Decision Artifacts That Govern Outcomes (1) · Chapter 22: Embedding Buyer Governance (2)
Ontario’s AI Note-Taker Accuracy Fixes Start at the Next Purchase
Ontario’s auditor found errors in notes from all 20 approved AI note-taking systems it reviewed for doctors. The accuracy fixes that followed apply to future purchases; current contracts gained an annual security report.
Read MoreA Senate Bill on AI Agents Sets Conditions on the Buyer
The first federal text on AI agents does not ask the software to behave well. It specifies conditions the arrangement must have, and most enterprises cannot meet one of them internally.
Read MoreAI Vendor Checklists Have Quietly Become a Buying Standard
Enterprise buyers assembled an evidence-gated purchasing instrument for AI vendors one RFP at a time. It gates payment on proof rather than promise, it is already operating, and it still has no name.
Read MoreColorado and the EU Kept AI Disclosure and Dropped AI Assessment
Colorado repealed its AI Act in May and Europe deferred the high risk regime in July. In both cases the duty to disclose survived and the duty to assess did not.
Read MoreWhy Big Four Reports Shipped With Fabricated AI Citations
Deloitte, KPMG and EY each shipped a report with fabricated citations inside eight months. None of them decided to skip the check. The check was never priced, so it never happened.
Read MoreA CFO’s Four AI Guardrails All Point at the Buyer’s Own Systems
A CFO lays out exactly what enterprise AI accountability requires. Every requirement points at the buyer’s own systems, and none of them point at the vendor.
Read MoreEurope Lets AI Buyers Complain About Suppliers, With Evidence
Europe just gave the AI buyer a formal complaint right against its supplier. The statute puts the burden of evidence on the buyer, which is where it always belonged.
Read MoreThe New AI Economics Standard Measures Labor Replaced
A standards body for AI economics now exists. Its opening measure of value is the share of work done without a person, which prices substitution and never asks whether the promised outcome arrived.
Read MoreEvery Executive Claims to Sign Off on AI Purchases
August survey data shows every executive seat naming itself the signer of AI purchases, while unowned decisions double one level down. No assignment exercise settles contradictory claims. A buyer’s record does.
Read MoreWhen AI Agents Buy for You, the Seller’s Agent Defines Your Needs
Agent-to-agent commerce is being wired with a machine-readable model of the buyer’s value, written entirely on the seller’s side of the table. The buyer’s counterpart artifact does not exist yet.
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