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The Version 1 guide to terrible AI governance

Engineering is at the heart of Version 1 – we look at problems from the inside out. When it comes to something as important and pertinent as AI governance for enterprises, we couldn’t create a guide painting the perfect picture of it. 

Unfortunately, terrible AI governance is everywhere – the chatbot that confidently gives wrong information or the compliance framework that takes six committees to approve changing a comma. In this guide, we take AI governance apart, examine how it can go spectacularly wrong and actually learn from it – like proper engineers do. 

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A step-by-step guide on how to:

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Burn cash

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Put your organisation at risk

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Gloss over guardrails

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Sidestep data quality

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Keep AI in limbo with endless pilots and no production plan

Key insights

  • Step 1: Governance Gold Rush

    The FOMO Governance Strategy > The Grown-Up’s Guide to ROI

  • Step 2: Manifest Data Governance

    The Power of Positive Thinking (about Data Controls) > The Unglamorous Truth about Data

  • Step 3: Governance Groundhog Day

    Perfect the Art of Never Delivering > Ship It or Skip It

  • Step 4: Performative Governance & Compliance Cosplay

    Oscar-Worth Compliance Theatre > Effective Governance

  • Step 5: The Great Human Oversight

    Guarantee Maximum Non-Compliance > Humans are the Control