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AI Governance Unpacked: Credo CEO Navrina Singh on Building Trust in AI Models
19 Aug 2025
What does "AI governance" really entail, and why does it matter right now? Credo AI founder Navrina Singh joins The Neuron to unpack risk buckets, Model Trust Scores, and the regulatory zig-zag between the EU and the U.S.—so you can move fast without crashing the car. We dive into open source safety, agent governance, and test OpenAI's brand new open source model live.Learn more about AI governance: https://credo.ai/resourcesSubscribe to The Neuron newsletter: https://theneuron.ai
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From autonomous agents that can spend your money to language models that decide who gets hired, AI is taking real-world actions today. Credo AI's Navrina Singh breaks down how we can keep that power in check and make sure we're all safe. Welcome, humans, to the Neuron Podcast. I'm Corey Knowles, as always, joined by Grant Harvey. How are you doing today, Grant?
Doing good. Doing good. How are you, Corey?
Doing great. Well, today we have someone extra special with us. We're joined by Credo AI's founder and CEO, Navrina Singh. How are you, Navrina? I'm fantastic, Corey. Nice to be here. Good. Well, Nina's from Credo AI. It's an AI governance platform that empowers organizations to deliver and embed artificial intelligence responsibly by proactively measuring, monitoring, and managing AI risk.
Before founding Credo AI, Navrina spent nearly two decades building products in mobile, SaaS, and AI at companies like Microsoft and Qualcomm.
She was an AI advisor as part of the National AI Advisory Commission, advisor to the UN AI Advisory Board, a young global leader with the World Economic Forum, and served as executive board member of Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla AI, supporting its trustworthy AI charter. So, if you've been wondering, what in the heck is AI governance and why do I care? This is the interview to watch.
Navrina, welcome to the podcast. We're so excited to have you today. Thank you for having me, Corey. Well, I suppose there are a whole host of interesting governance rabbit holes we could go down from talking about either ChatGPT agent or new open source out of China, the White House's AI action plan. You've really been at the forefront of governance for a number of years now.
But before we dive into all of that, I thought we'd start with the very basics. Most of our listeners are they're using AI tools, but they might not fully understand what AI governance means. Would you break that down for them?
Absolutely, Corey. You know, at the end of the day, when you're using very powerful systems like artificial intelligence, what becomes paramount is can you trust them? Can you actually have the confidence that they are going to behave the way that you expect them to behave? So at the end of the day, how do you build that trust?
Governance is a set of policies and process and organizational structures and toolings that basically makes that trust a reality. So governance is, you know, the oversight and accountability across your entire AI lifecycle to make sure that you're doing three things really well.
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