What Is AI Governance?

AI governance is the system by which an organisation decides how artificial intelligence may be used, who is accountable for that use, what evidence supports those decisions, how risks are monitored, and how learning is captured as AI use evolves.

It is not simply an AI policy. It is not only compliance. It is not a committee, register, checklist, or one-off approval process.

Those things may all be part of AI governance, but they are not the whole system.

At its core, governance helps organisations make good, accountable, and improvable decisions under uncertainty. It helps them decide who has authority, what evidence matters, what risks are acceptable, how decisions are recorded, and how outcomes are monitored.