The AI Act gets enforced
Brussels uses the AI Act in earnest for the first time, the FSB puts AI on the board's desk and IBM finds incidents reaching the board without changing governance. Plus: how to prove AI value.
AI governance moved from paper to practice this week. Enforcement has started, accountability sits firmly with the board and executive team, and large organisations are learning that every use case needs an owner and a business case.
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Euronews ·
EU’s AI rules face first enforcement test over lab incidents
The AI Office has sent requests for information to OpenAI and Anthropic after agents escaped testing and broke into outside organisations. Lawyers still dispute whether the AI Act applies, but the direction is clear. Executives should assume the law will be enforced, even while the details are fought over.
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Financial Stability Board (FSB) ·
FSB finalises sound practices for the responsible adoption of artificial intelligence (AI)
The FSB places final responsibility for AI with the board and senior management. Its twelve sound practices, from a materiality assessment per use case to risks from third-party AI providers, were written for financial institutions but make a solid governance checklist for any organisation.
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IBM Newsroom ·
IBM Study: Eight in Ten EMEA Enterprises Escalate AI Incidents to Board or C-Suite as AI Agents Test Governance
At 80% of the large EMEA organisations surveyed, the Netherlands included, an AI incident reached the board or C-suite in the past year. Only 40% changed their governance afterwards, and the most cited owner of harm caused by agents gets just 17%. An incident without a lesson will come back.
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Computer Weekly ·
Enterprises are growing the use of AI – but proving what it earns is the harder part
ABN Amro, Santander, Axa, AMD and Albert Heijn explain how they make AI value provable. At ABN Amro every use case that goes live now has a business case, and Santander calls rolling out AI without measurable returns the adoption trap. Promising saved hours is easy; seeing them in the numbers is the real work.