The Governance Illusion Awareness Is Up, Action Isn ' t
Organizations know AI introduces risk. They ' ve written the policies and briefed the board. What they haven ' t done is act on it.
Across the NIST AI RMF, governance scores highest, and management- the ability to enforce, respond, and recover, scores lowest. Organizations are putting in policies that they can’ t act on.
The gap varies sharply by sector
Education and energy fall furthest behind, while even tightly regulated financial services can ' t fully close the gap.
Policy without enforcement is just exposure. And automating AI security decisions without business context only speeds up the wrong fixes.
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