Artificial Inteligence
data analytics
April 2, 2026
Thursday Thoughts on AI: Governance First
The best production facilities have policies and procedures for equipment and software. Those guidelines are put in place to guarantee integrity throughout the process. Integrity maximizes efficiency while ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
The same approach needs to be taken with integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into your organization.
Common usages of AI and the associated risks include:
Using LLMs (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) to create emails or other text. How you phrase the prompt may result in unintentional sharing confidential information – even if you don’t use real names of people or companies.
Using LLMs to create text, images or video to be published as a blog or article. Depending upon the prompts provided, the response may include information from material protected by copyrights. The person who publishes the material, not the AI agent that created it, is liable for any claims, including financial, made by the original creator.
AI note takers on web calls (Teams, Zoom, Google Meet, etc.). Most states in the United States require that attendees give consent to be recorded. Also, some recorders use the transcripts to train their AI programs. Make sure that you receive consent before you start recording.
Having Agentic AI tools automatically respond to emails. There is potential for bias in the language used by the tool. Language that could result in discrimination lawsuits.
AI tools are excellent ways of improving productivity. However, it’s important to understand the risks – and how to prevent them. A simple, three-step process:
- Get educated. Talk with the IT and legal departments in your company. Take online courses (there are several in the LinkedIn Learning (https://www.linkedin.com/learning/) platform).
- Develop personal and professional guidelines for using AI tools.
- Have the guidelines reviewed by a professional. I had my AI company’s policy reviewed by an attorney who specializes in consultants.
Warren Buffet has been quoted as saying, "Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing."
Take time to learn the risks, then apply the lessons learned to be successful with AI.
Amazing Astronomical Fact: The root of the word supernova – “nova” – means “new”. That’s because in 1572, when the astronomer Tycho Brahe observed a supernova in the constellation Cassiopeia, he noted it as a “new star” or “de nova stella”.
However, a “supernova” is a stellar explosion marking the end of a star’s life. It took scientists almost 350 years to understand that these “new stars” are massive thermonuclear explosions. What will we understand in the year 2450?
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