by Touch Stone Publishers | Jun 20, 2026
The most dangerous governance failure in 2026 is not the failure to innovate. It is the failure to verify. Boards that have spent the last three years building AI governance declarations (responsible AI policies, ethics pledges, AI principles statements) and treated...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jun 18, 2026
A board chair I have known for years called me the week the Colorado legislature voted to repeal the law everyone had been preparing for. He was relieved, and he wanted me to share the relief. The deadline that had been sitting on his calendar since last winter, the...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jun 15, 2026
On May 14, a state legislature did something that looked, on its surface, like a reprieve for boards. Colorado repealed and replaced the law it had spent two years building. The Colorado Artificial Intelligence Act, the first comprehensive state framework in the...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jun 9, 2026
The hardest fact for a board to absorb about its enterprise AI program is that the duty of oversight does not wait for the technology to mature. It attaches the moment the deployment becomes material to the enterprise, and by the standard Delaware courts apply, a...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jun 8, 2026
Eighteen months ago a board approved an AI pilot. It was a small decision, correctly made small. A pilot is an experiment, and experiments belong to management. The board did what boards do with experiments: it noted the budget, asked a sensible question or two, and...