A policy is not an audit trail: what operational AI governance actually requires
Written expectations describe intent. Assurance requires a record of what a system did, who reviewed it and on what basis.
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Working notes on the practical side of governed AI: where oversight breaks down, what an audit trail has to contain, and how firms keep adoption moving without accumulating exposure.
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Written expectations describe intent. Assurance requires a record of what a system did, who reviewed it and on what basis.
Coming soonReview steps bolted on to a live workflow become optional in practice. Oversight has to be a designed part of the process.
Coming soonProfessional indemnity conversations are moving from whether a firm uses AI to how its use is controlled and evidenced.
Coming soonThe supervisory question a firm answers about a junior fee earner is the same question it now has to answer about a model.
Coming soonQuality review assumes a reviewable trail. Generated outputs need the same traceability as any other working paper.
Coming soonOver-engineered governance is abandoned. The objective is the smallest control set that makes a use case defensible.
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