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)
When Vendors Call Your Terms ‘Uncustomary,’ Keep Them
When a buyer writes its own standard, sellers seldom call it wrong; they call it uncustomary. GSA’s AI clause drew exactly that objection, and its final text kept the precedence rule industry had asked it to revisit.
Read MoreThe US Government’s AI Contract Clause Tests Everything but Value
The largest buyer on earth claimed the right to test its AI vendors on terms it alone controls, and attached consequences to everything except whether the value arrived.
Read MoreWhat an AI Certification Does and Doesn’t Tell a Buyer
Accredited AI certification has arrived in the enterprise evaluation. It attests that a management system exists, not that the value it governs was ever delivered.
Read MoreOverseeing What AI Produces Is Already a Legal Duty
The obligation to oversee what the machine produces is already law. The only open question is whether it is discharged by a standard or left to whoever is willing to hold the…
Read MoreEU AI Act Delays Don’t Change Who Must Check AI Value
What the EU’s deferral and Bain’s reinvestment data say, together, about who actually governs value, and why capital cannot wait for either of them to settle the question.
Read MoreAppointing a Chief AI Officer Won’t Make AI Deliver
The argument that survives is not which role should own the machine, but whether the value flowing through it is governed by a standard the buyer holds.
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