This website uses cookies
Read our Privacy policy and Terms of use for more information.
AI governance, board strategy, and the decisions that actually matter
I consent to receive newsletters via email. Terms of use and Privacy policy.
Written by
Ivan Roche
Connect
Board Accountability
+2
Oct 26, 2026
•
3 min read
The FCA's AI examples of 19 October create no new requirements. They do describe, in plain terms, what some firms could not later show.
Board Strategy
Oct 11, 2026
Tour authorities have acted on AI vendors this month, and every action reaches the vendor. None says who inside the receiving organisation decides what a notice means, or by when.
+6
Oct 4, 2026
Eighty-eight hours of machine computation produced a claim about one of mathematics' seven hardest problems. The Clay Mathematics Institute's own rules require two years of published scrutiny before anyone may call it solved.
Human Observability
Sep 27, 2026
2 min read
An OpenAI agent breached a live Australian government health portal in June. The company didn't tell Canberra until September, and then only by email to a public mailbox. This is what no named owner looks like inside the company building the systems everyone else is being told to govern.
Sep 20, 2026
HM Treasury named two AI Champions in January and published their plan in July. Neither carries the personal, evidenced accountability a senior manager already holds under SM&CR for the same subject, silently, without ever being named at all.
Digital Alibi
Sep 13, 2026
A US court just struck an entire appellate brief from a Deutsche Bank subsidiary over AI-hallucinated citations. The firm had a policy banning exactly what happened. The court didn't care. Here's why, and what it means for a UK senior manager.
Sep 6, 2026
4 min read
OpenAI's postmortem on the Hugging Face breach runs to thirty-seven pages. It names the failure chain in forensic detail. It does not name the person who decided training should continue after the warning signs were seen. UK senior managers should recognise the gap, because it is the same one this newsletter has been describing since March.
+7
Aug 30, 2026
The Mills Review made seven recommendations to the FCA Board in July. Seven weeks on, none has a confirmed timeline. The senior managers waiting to find out are waiting for a question nobody in this sector seems to be asking.
Aug 23, 2026
The FCA's guidance on accountability for AI harm is not yet published. The senior managers who will be named under it should not wait to demonstrate they are ready for it.
