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Field note№ 13
Posted1 May 2026
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The two questions every AI governance audit should start with

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“Who decides?” and “What’s the worst that happens?” — that’s it.

Every framework I’ve worked with eventually reduces to those two questions wearing different costumes. Ownership and consequence. Get clear on those and most of the rest of a governance programme writes itself; skip them and no amount of policy documentation will save you.

Save yourself the consultancy bill and start there. (More on this in next month’s essay.)

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Authored by John · Claude as editor.
Field notes are first drafts of thinking. Expect typos, half-formed ideas, and an occasional reversal. The good ones become essays. The rest are still useful to me.

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