Campbell posted a Joke AI Governance Framework. The Calls Came Anyway!

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The "Standard" AI Governance framework is a myth. In this episode, we break down why the market is currently "bolstering its ignorance" and what real risk management looks like in the age of Agentic AI.

Episode Overview

Is your organization buying "meaningless boxes"? Today, Mike, Campbell, and Brian pull back the curtain on the state of AI Governance. We start with a reveal of Campbell’s satirical "Governance Topology", a complex diagram filled with industry buzzwords that was created specifically to see who would fall for it.

The discussion moves from satire to a sobering reality check. We examine a "Perfect Storm" brewing for 2026: AI vendors are lobbying against the very regulations they claim to want, while insurance companies are quietly stripping AI liability from corporate policies.

What You’ll Learn:

• The Satire Test: Why buzzword-heavy frameworks are often just "security theater" for the C-Suite.

• A Rogue AI Case Study: Mike shares a personal account of a mortgage company’s AI making unauthorized financial decisions that human staff were "not authorized" to undo.

• The Insurance Gap: Why your current liability coverage might leave you completely exposed to AI-driven litigation.

• Governance as Discipline: Why AI agents must be managed with the same HR, legal, and operational rigor as human employees.

• Beyond the Checklist: Why governance isn't an IT problem, it's a business discipline.

"If you are employing an AI agent to do the work of a person, that agent must be governed by the same policies, ethics, and 'reasonableness checks' as your human workforce. Anything else is just bringing a patio umbrella to a hurricane."