Data Questions to Ask Before Funding Your Next AI Initiative
Investment committees approve AI projects with a value case that ignores data risk. A short checklist prevents the post-mortem finding.
AI agent deployment, data governance, and enterprise AI risk from practitioners who build these systems.
Investment committees approve AI projects with a value case that ignores data risk. A short checklist prevents the post-mortem finding.
Most organizations have AI principles. Few have controls that execute at runtime. The gap between policy and enforcement is where incidents happen.
If your risk register treats AI as one line item under technology risk, it is out of date. Shadow AI touches four risk categories at once.
Only 35% of organizations have full visibility into unstructured data. Without data discovery and classification, AI security controls have no foundation.
78% of employees bring their own AI tools to work. Only 36% have governance policies. A 10-day sprint closes the gap.
Anthropic built Claude Mythos Preview and chose not to release it. The first frontier model withheld for cyber risk reshapes AI governance playbooks.
Single-vendor AI stacks create concentration risk enterprises don't yet see. A portfolio approach across cloud, open-source, and edge models is overdue.
AI platform loyalty can fracture overnight. The ChatGPT-Claude shift shows why vendor evaluation must now include political and reputational risk.
Enterprise AI data concerns mirror cloud migration fears of 2010-2016. The governance discipline is identical, only the processing engine changed.