Ep 855: AI Governance in Plain English: 5 AI Rules Every Company Needs to follow (Start Here Series Vol 14)
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What is AI governance and why does it matter for companies?
Welcome to the Everyday AI podcast. My name is Jordan Wilson, and for the past three and a half years, we put out more than 800 episodes. Yet, one of the most common questions I get, I didn't really have an answer for. Where do I start on the Everyday AI podcast? And that's why we started the Start Here series. And with Fall now back in full swing, the Everyday AI podcast is Is going back to school and playing back the entire Start Here series from front to back. We've hit pause on our normal Monday to Friday programming to run back our most popular series ever for the next 30 days. We made the Start Here series for beginners and AI champions alike. So whether you're just trying to get a grasp on large language models or grappling with the best coding harness for multi-agentic.
Workflows, the Start Here series covers it all. Plain language, no jargon, and easy to follow along each day. So make sure to subscribe to the podcast and check back each day for new insights day by day. The series is a culmination of spending more than 10,000 hours covering generative AI over the past three and a half years. So you don't want to miss a single episode of the Start Here series. Let's get into it. If you're forced to have an opinion on stoplights, I think most people would fall in one of two camps. Either one, these stoplights are annoying. I'm trying to get somewhere and they're slowing me down. Or two, hey, stoplights, great. They keep people safe. And I think you can have the same two train of thoughts when it comes to AI governance.
You could say, hey, this is slowing me or my company down and it's annoying, or hey, this is probably keeping us safe, this AI governance thing. What? I don't think most people care or even know too much about AI governance. For a variety of reasons, but probably the main one being AI's capabilities are changing so fast that it becomes almost impossible to govern them. I mean, when you even think about cars, cars have been the same for like 110 years, so the stoplights are relatively. Effective, right? But AI isn't even the same this week as it was last week. So how can we keep up with governance and understand it and make it work for us? Well, that's what we're going to be diving into on today's show.
So let's get to the big picture here. And that's right now, according to a state of AI report from Deloitte, 74% of companies expect to use agentic AI within the next two years, but only about 21%. report having a mature model for governance. So just about every single company wants to use autonomous AI that will act without someone watching over it, yet most people admit to not even having a plan. And compared to the prior year uh state of AI report from Deloitte, the number of companies reporting that they have a uh mature model of governance has actually gone down. It's because companies can't keep up and is getting scary, both in a good and bad way. So That's what we're going to be tackling on today's show.
And if you do stick around, here's what you're going to learn. You're going to learn why the governance rules that you built for chatbots are already broken. Uh, what real lawsuits against big companies reveal about ungoverned AI. And I'm going to leave you with five operational rules that turn AI governance into a scaling advantage. Yeah, I'm going to tell you the five AI rules that literally every company needs to know. And follow because then you don't have to worry about this. Hey, what the heck is AI governance? I'm going to tell you and how you can keep up with it. All right, let's get into it. Welcome to Everyday AI, and this is our Start Here series. It is the Essential Podcast Series to both learn the AI basics and to double down on your AI knowledge.
So yeah, make sure you go start with volume one. All right, and then listen to them in order if you're brand new here. And also if you're brand new here, make sure to go to starthirseries.com. That will give you exclusive access to our private and free. Free AI community called the Inner Circle. All right.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is AI governance and why does it matter for companies?
0:00–5:23
2
Why are companies struggling to keep up with rapidly evolving AI?
5:23–11:53
3
What real‑world lawsuits illustrate the risks of ungoverned AI?
11:53–15:45
4
How should organizations classify AI tools by risk level?
15:45–19:41
5
Who should own AI systems and how can clear accountability be ensured?
19:41–23:32
6
Why are playbooks more effective than static policies for AI governance?
23:32–26:16
7
How can monthly AI governance reviews prevent costly failures?
26:16–29:46
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What are the five essential AI governance rules every company must follow?
29:46–32:02
Speakers
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