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Governing a Moving Target: AI as Cognitive Infrastructure

An Executive Playbook for Durable AI Governance

AI tools, models and autonomous agents increasingly participate in organisational decisions and operations. Governance must keep pace with changes in their behaviour, dependencies and use.

Governing a Moving Target treats AI governance as an operational enterprise capability. It connects policy, standards, technical controls, human accountability and assurance with evidence that controls are working.

The book addresses visibility of Shadow AI, policies tied to individual tools, weak human override routes, autonomous-agent privileges and Board reporting that describes activity without demonstrating current control effectiveness.

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Current-State AI Governance Baseline Assessment

This five-question self-assessment reflects your responses. Its maturity labels are diagnostic terminology, not independent assurance of compliance, security or audit readiness.

1. AI Tool Visibility & Shadow AI
How does your organization maintain its inventory of AI tools, models, and sub-agents?
2. Policy Durability & Standards Alignment
How are your AI safety and compliance policies structured?
3. Contestability & Human Overrides
What happens when an automated decision harms or excludes an individual?
4. Non-Human Identity (NHI) & Zero-Trust Controls
How do you govern autonomous AI agents, crawlers, and API integrations?
5. Board Assurance & Evidentiary Artifacts
How does leadership verify that AI risk controls are active right now?