1、AI Governance and Risk Management2026 is the year AI governance becomes a Board mandate.Understand why taking a proactive approach to AI risk is essential for protecting the business and securing competitive advantage.Boardroom Briefing WAVESTONE|2IntroductionAI is advancing at a pace that outstrips
2、 traditional governance models and Boards must act now.Our experts highlight the rapidly evolving risk landscape and the complexity of regulatory and compliance challenges,then offer a practical framework to support the responsible scaling of AI across organizations.01 AI Governance must be on Board
3、 agendas Page 4Table of ContentsAboutWavestoneHow do we help clients with AI governance?Page 11Authors and contributorsPage 12AI Governance and Risk Management02 Executives have key responsibilities for AI Risk OversightPage 704 Regulatory and compliance challenges are particularly complexPage 603 T
4、he AI risk landscape is rapidly evolvingPage 5ChaptersClient storiesHow did a global insurance company operationalize AI risk governance?Page 9How did a global energy company ensure the safe and scalable rollout of its GenAI program?Page 1005 The Integrated AI Risk Management FrameworkPage 8Executiv
5、e SummaryPage 3 WAVESTONE|3AI risks pose an existential threat to companies;responsibility lies with all Board members.As AI proliferates across companies and industries,Boards must act now to ensure their organizations are fully equipped to adopt AI but,equally importantly,to manage the novel,and e
6、xistential,risks AI brings.In this paper,we explain how a lack of effective AI governance-overseen by the Board poses critical threats to the organization,whether from a regulatory,reputational or innovation perspective.We also underline how all Board members have responsibilities when it comes to A