Providing practical guidance, tools and resources so you can do the real work of governing safe, secure and lawful AI. Newsletter #65 - October 2026 📰 Feature Article The Practice of Adaptive Governance By James Kavanagh So I'm writing a book, one article at a time, called The Practice of Adaptive Governance. And publishing it in the open. I decided to start writing this a few months ago, as I found myself learning, teaching and working with clients more and more on the challenges of...
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This newsletter provides practical guidance, tools and resources for the real work of governing safe, secure and lawful AI. Newsletter #64 - September 2026 By James Kavanagh We missed last week's edition but have some existing news, so this one's a little different. No feature article. Instead, two things we've been building that are now live. The AI Governor A podcast sharing stories and insights from people doing the real work of AI governance. If you've read the blog for any length of time...
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This newsletter provides practical guidance, tools and resources for the real work of governing safe, secure and lawful AI. Newsletter #62 - August 2026 Feature Article The Six Design Rules that AI Safety Forgot By James Kavanagh Designing an agentic system that is safe and secure is really hard. As an industry, we're solving it by improvisation, trial-and-error and often getting it wrong. Yet the principles we need already exist. They just come from elsewhere. I've been working on how to...
3 months ago • 6 min read
This newsletter provides practical guidance, tools and resources for the real work of governing safe, secure and lawful AI. Newsletter #61 - July 2026 Feature Article 5 Ways to Take the Practice Leap into AI Governance By James Kavanagh Every AI governance practitioner faces three capability leaps over the course of their career: the Practice Leap, the Adaptive Leap, and the Leadership Leap. The Practice Leap moves a practitioner from knowing what governance should look like, to actually...
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This newsletter provides practical guidance, tools and resources for the real work of governing safe, secure and lawful AI. Newsletter #60 - July 2026 Feature Article #1 Building an AI Inventory is your First Governance Intervention By James Kavanagh Your first meaningful governance intervention is most likely building an AI inventory. It's the first time anyone in the organisation has to sit down and agree, out loud, on what AI is really running and what it's for. That's not an admin task...
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This newsletter provides practical guidance, tools and resources for the real work of governing safe, secure and lawful AI. Newsletter #59 - June 2026 Feature Article #1 How I scope compliance obligations for AI governance By James Kavanagh The biggest compliance obligations on your AI systems rarely come from AI regulation. Here's how I work out what actually applies, starting from what the business does, not the law. When practitioners new to AI Governance start scoping their compliance...
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This newsletter provides practical guidance, tools and resources for the real work of governing safe, secure and lawful AI. Newsletter #58 - June 2026 Feature Article #1 How I triage AI governance problems By James Kavanagh You get hired to review one AI system. Within hours you find a dozen, and the one everyone's worried about turns out to be the safest of the lot. The systems that should worry you are usually the ones nobody can see. This is the method I use to work out where to start....
5 months ago • 5 min read
This newsletter provides practical guidance, tools and resources for the real work of governing safe, secure and lawful AI. Newsletter #57 - May 2026 Feature Article A new path to demonstrated practitioner capability in AI governance. By James Kavanagh Law has supervised practice before admission to the bar. Medicine has residency. Engineering has years of oversight by senior engineers before obtaining a charter. Each serious profession recognizes that capability builds in stages, and that...
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This newsletter provides practical guidance, tools and resources for the real work of governing safe, secure and lawful AI. Newsletter #56 - April 2026 Feature Article How ready are you to govern AI? By James Kavanagh Certification puts you at the start line, not the finish. It gives you baseline knowledge. What it doesn't give you is the practitioner capability to actually do governance work - the resources to do it well, the influence and judgment that grow from experience. Building that...
6 months ago • 5 min read