by Touch Stone Publishers | Aug 28, 2026
Most ethics failures inside large organizations are not failures of character. They are failures of modeling. An employee who discovers that an AI system’s public performance claims do not match its internal test results makes the decision to surface that gap or...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Aug 12, 2026
Every quarter, a function head fills in a status color for the risk categories under her control. Cyber resilience: green. Safety documentation: green. Supply chain continuity: green. The colors roll up into a single page, and the page reaches the board looking...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Aug 4, 2026
There is a question every leadership team answers by default, whether or not it ever gets asked out loud: when AI makes a task cheap, does the organization spend the savings on more output, or on better judgment? Most organizations spend it on output. They take the...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jul 28, 2026
For as long as Caremark has governed officer liability, the strongest sentence an officer could say in a deposition was some version of the same claim. No one told me. No red flag reached my desk. I ran a reasonable system and the system produced silence, and silence...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jul 21, 2026
A governance system that keeps a complete, accurate record of everything an autonomous agent has done, and surfaces none of it until someone thinks to look, has not built oversight. It has built a filing cabinet with better handwriting. The record is real. The...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jul 14, 2026
A board that names an executive owner for its AI systems and stops there has not built accountability. It has built a name on a document, which is a different thing entirely, and the difference surfaces at the exact moment it matters most. Every governance framework...
