AI Governance Is Now Judged by Evidence, Not Principles
Jason Stearns
August 6, 2026
Many organizations already have the beginnings of an AI governance program. There’s an acceptable use policy, a
Many organizations already have the beginnings of an AI governance program. There’s an acceptable use policy, a
Most organizations have spent years building retention schedules around a familiar set of record types: project docuents,
Organizations don’t struggle to manage their data because they lack policy. Most have a retention schedule somewhere,
This series began with a simple claim. If information governance exists only in policy, it
This series has been building toward execution. Retention has to be operational, not just documented. It needs structure, and
In the last post, we made the case that retention schedules need structure—that operational governance