Policy

Forecasts are comforting because they pretend the future has already filed its paperwork. A number arrives. A probability. A trend line. A neat dashboard arrow pointing upward, downward, or toward whichever strategic conclusion the executive team secretly preferred anyway. This is why forecasting tools sell so well: they reduce uncertainty into something that looks like management. ...

A company announces an AI governance committee. There is a policy document, a risk register, a review workflow, a few tasteful slides, and perhaps a new Slack channel with “responsible” in the name. Everyone feels governed. Excellent. The bureaucracy has successfully acquired stationery. The harder question is not whether the institution has an AI governance process. It is who can actually move it. ...