Are you in control of AI, or is AI already running your business?

Most companies still lack an AI strategy, approved tools, and clear processes, yet their teams already use AI daily. That’s the dangerous gap: AI in practice without AI governance.

Why this matters, and why now:

• Your people are already using AI, most employees experiment with tools on their own.

• Shadow AI is real, with unapproved tools creating data leakage and compliance risks.

• Some even share sensitive customer data with public AI platforms.

• AI can be confidently wrong, as shown by the US case where lawyers were fined for citing fake cases generated by a chatbot.

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Regulatory clock is ticking, EU AI Act:

• The EU AI Act entered into force in August 2024 with phased application.

• Banned practices apply from February 2025, such as social scoring by public authorities.

• Transparency rules for general-purpose AI apply from August 2025.

• Limited-risk transparency, for example labelling synthetic or deepfake content, applies from August 2026.

• If you use high-risk AI, you as a deployer have duties such as human oversight, training, and incident reporting.

What this means for leaders: Without a plan, you risk data leaks, GDPR trouble, reputational damage, and misleading customers with over-confident AI outputs. Regulators have already warned about the dangers of personal data in AI models and the need for safeguards.

The smarter path: Turn risk into results:

1) Set guardrails, policy and training

Create a simple AI use policy, define allowed and blocked tools, and train teams on data handling, such as no sensitive data in public AIs and always verifying output before customer use.

2) Approve a safe AI toolset

Offer secure, logged, enterprise-grade options so people don’t default to risky tools. Pair with access controls and monitoring.

3) Build a light AI governance loop

Use-case intake and risk check, human-in-the-loop for external content, incident path for model errors or data exposure.

4) Start with low-drama, high-return use cases

Examples include sales email drafting with human review, meeting recap, proposal skeletons tied to your pricing library. Connect to source-of-truth data and require fact checks before client delivery.

5) Label synthetic content

If you publish AI-generated visuals or audio, label it. This will be required under the EU AI Act, and it already builds customer trust today.

What changes when you do this:

Faster pipeline, reps spend less time on admin, more on conversationsLower risk, fewer leaks, clearer accountability, better documentation, Higher trust, customers get accurate, verified answers, not unvetted AI guesses, Compliance-ready, you won’t scramble as EU AI Act milestones kick in.

Your move:

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