Doing AI Governance

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May 2025

Read the new ISO 42005 AI Impact Assessment Standard. Skip the paperwork.
Resist the urge to build new bureaucracy around AI impact assessments. Instead, integrate lightweight checks into the workflows you already have.
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Designing for Adaptive Oversight of AI
Applying the lessons of safety engineering and control theory to the complex and dynamic problems of meaningful human oversight.
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Systems Safety Engineering in AI
Applying the mindset of instrumentation, feedback, feedforward and human-machine controllers to the complex dynamics of AI.
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April 2025

Diving into AI Data Lifecycle Governance
Effective practices for data quality, lineage documentation and bias in the data of AI Systems
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AI Lifecycle Governance
How to embed the mechanisms for safety and trustworthiness into every phase of your AI System’s lifecycle
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Creating your AI Risk Management Policy
A blueprint for implementing AI Risk Management in your organisation, along with a fully developed policy template that you can use to build on.
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Choosing the right controls for AI risks
A systematic approach to selecting the most effective prevention, detection, and response measures for major AI risks, both human and technical from…
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The Velocity of Harm and Dynamic Feedback in AI Risk Assessment
Practical, proven methods to assess AI risks and a straightforward way to factor and communicate unique aspects of AI risk, including dynamic feedback…
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March 2025

Identifying AI Risks
In Part 2 of our short series on building your AI Risk Management Framework, here are five real-world, proven and practical ways to identify the real…
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Creating your AI Risk Management Framework (Part 1)
A practical outline of how to build the core risk management framework for AI Governance, starting with approaches to risk categorisation and an…
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Creating your AI Governance Policy
Here's how to create a straightforward, practical AI governance structure and policy aligned to ISO42001 and other frameworks - plus a complete policy…
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