The Audacity of AI: What The Hype Leaves Out

By Michelle Adebayo
Artificial intelligence has become the star of every keynote, strategy workshop and executive roundtable. Scroll through LinkedIn or attend any industry event and you will hear the same confident declarations: AI is here, it is transformative and it is moving faster than anything we have seen. Some of that is true. But the idea that AI’s impact will arrive seamlessly or without friction is one of the biggest omissions in the mainstream narrative. What is often missing from the hype is the slow, unglamorous and essential work required to make AI safe, fair and trustworthy. That work is governance.
Over nearly a decade working in data and AI governance across large o...