AI Governance
Frameworks, policies, and practical guides for governing AI usage without blocking productivity.
AI governance is the set of policies, processes, and controls that determine how an organisation manages its use of AI tools. Done well, it enables teams to use AI confidently. Done badly, it either blocks adoption entirely or gets ignored.
COSO Has Spoken: Generative AI Now Sits Inside Your Internal Control Framework
COSO published its first GenAI-specific internal control guidance in February 2026. Eight capability types, five COSO components mapped to AI, and a six-step implementation roadmap.
GovernanceThe First Australian Judicial Guidance on Directors and AI: ASIC v Bekier, Explained
Justice Lee's judgment in ASIC v Bekier contains the first substantive Australian judicial commentary on directors using generative AI. What boards need to know about formal AI governance policies.
GovernanceUK AI Governance Is Arriving for SMEs Through Procurement, Data Law, and Regulators. Not a Single AI Act.
The UK has no AI Act but businesses are already regulated through data protection reform, sector regulators, and procurement. How obligations reach SMEs through supply chain pressure.
GovernanceCanada's AI Governance Patchwork: What CIOs Must Do Without a Federal AI Law
Canada has no comprehensive federal AI law and will not have one in the near term. What it does have is a set of real expectations: regulators now expect AI inventories, impact assessments, and clear accountability structures, even without legislation that mandates them explicitly.
GovernanceGenAI Value Drift: How AI Is Quietly Changing Workplace Standards Nobody Voted to Change
Most AI governance frameworks are designed to catch failures. University of Auckland researchers identify a different problem: when GenAI generates the language of management, workplace standards can shift without any single failure to point to.
GovernanceWhat Is an AI Governance Framework (And What Does One Actually Contain)?
Most organisations deploying AI lack a governance framework. This guide explains what one contains and how to build it using ASIC's maturity model.
GovernanceWhen AI Adoption Outruns Governance: What ASIC Found Inside 23 Australian Lenders
ASIC reviewed 624 AI use cases across 23 Australian licensees and found governance consistently trailing deployment. The compliance gap is already causing consumer harm.