Your AI Governance Problem Starts at the Executive Table
Zapier asked 548 executives about AI governance and 79% admitted employees work around it. The number I'd circle is a different one. Forty-one percent say their company ships fast and tunes guardrails later, and 47% say nothing goes live until governance is locked. When leadership splits that evenly, employees aren't breaking the rules so much as picking the half of the room they agree with. I've seen AI governance where the policy was fine and the risk appetite was never actually decided. No PDF fixes that. Before you tighten enforcement, can your executive team state its deployment stance in one sentence?
Source: 79% of company execs say employees work around their AI governance policies - News Channel 3-12 (News Channel 3-12)