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...
about 1 month 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...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
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...
2 months ago • 3 min read
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...
3 months ago • 3 min read
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....
3 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...
4 months ago • 3 min read
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...
5 months ago • 5 min read
Hi Reader, Thank you for being part of the AI Career Pro journey. It means a lot to us. We wanted to let you know that we've just released a new AI Governance Assessment tool. It's free, and takes only 15 minutes to help you assess your capability as a practitioner alongside the governance capacity of your organization. You get your results emailed with tailored recommendations and an analysis of where you stand relative to peers in your region and industry. We built the assessment to help...
5 months ago • 1 min read
This newsletter provides practical guidance, tools and resources for the real work of governing safe, secure and lawful AI. Newsletter #55 - April 2026 Feature Article #1 The biggest risk in AI governance is waiting for the perfect moment to start. By James Kavanagh There have never been more frameworks, more conferences, or more confident agreement that AI governance matters. And yet, it's not clear that the talk is turning into action. I've been in those meeting rooms and conference halls....
5 months ago • 4 min read