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Doing AI Governance

by James Kavanagh and AI Career Pro

Join over 4,500 subscribers and learn about the real work of AI governance. Moving beyond theory, we focus on the practical application of AI governance in real-world organisations with case studies, tools, templates and guidance. Led by James Kavanagh - the AI governance practitioner who led governance at both AWS and Microsoft.

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An AI Governance Assessment that tells you where you stand.

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...

2 days 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....

10 days ago • 4 min read

This newsletter provides practical guidance, tools and resources for the real work of governing safe, secure and lawful AI. Newsletter #54 - March 2026 Feature Article Stop Copying Frameworks. Start Translating Them. By James Kavanagh Why writing your AI governance policy by transposing straight from a regulation, standard or framework is a shortcut to failure. And what to do instead. Most organisations approach AI governance the same way. They pick up the EU AI Act, ISO 42001, or the NIST AI...

25 days ago • 3 min read

This newsletter provides practical guidance, tools and resources for the real work of governing safe, secure and lawful AI. Newsletter #53 - March 2026 Feature Article You Achieved ISO42001 Certification. Welcome to the Start Line. By James Kavanagh The gap between compliance documentation and genuine system-level assurance is where AI governance is falling down. Drawing on the lessons from the tragedy of Grenfell Tower and frontier AI safety case research, this article makes the case that...

about 1 month ago • 4 min read

This newsletter provides practical guidance, tools and resources for the real work of governing safe, secure and lawful AI. Newsletter 52 - February 2026 Feature Article The Waymo Way of Adaptive Governance By James Kavanagh What AI Governance looks like when it's designed into a system from the ground up, and what separates it from the static governance that failed at Cruise, HireVue, and South Wales Police. Most writing about AI governance begins with failure. This article begins with one...

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 #51 - January 2026 Feature Article Creating your AI Governance Policy By James Kavanagh This article draws on research and discussions with clients over the past year, including a review of more than 100 AI governance policies, both published and private. My intent was to identify what actually works in practice and what consistently fails. What I found was...

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. You're receiving this as a direct subscriber to communications from AI Career Pro, or as a Substack subscriber to the Doing AI Governance newsletter. We respect your privacy, so please unsubscribe through the link below if you do not wish to receive these communications. Newsletter #50 - December 2025 Feature Article The design gap in AI governance AI governance already...

4 months ago • 2 min read

A newsletter of practical guidance, tools and resources, for the real work of governing safe, secure and lawful AI. You're receiving this as a direct subscriber to communications from AI Career Pro, or as a Substack subscriber to the Doing AI Governance newsletter. We respect your privacy, so please unsubscribe through the link below if you do not wish to receive these communications. Newsletter #49 - December 2025 Feature Article Landing Your First Job in AI Governance Most of you reading...

4 months ago • 2 min read

A newsletter of practical guidance, tools and resources, for the real work of governing safe, secure and lawful AI. You're receiving this as a direct subscriber to communications from AI Career Pro, or as a Substack subcriber to the Doing AI Governance newsletter. We respect your privacy, so please unsubscribe through the link below if you do not wish to receive these communications. Newsletter #48 - November 2025 Feature Article Your First 100 Days leading AI Governance A brief playbook for...

5 months ago • 1 min read

A newsletter of practical guidance, tools and resources, for the real work of governing safe, secure and lawful AI. You're receiving this as a Substack subcriber to Doing AI Governance or direct subscriber to communications from AI Career Pro. We respect your privacy, so please unsubscribe through the link below if you do not wish to receive these communications. Newsletter #47 - November 2025 Feature Article Why Agentic AI is Everyone's Governance Issue How agentic browsers break digital...

5 months ago • 1 min read