3 Crucial AI Governance Questions Answered
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In this issue:
AI Governance Lacking: Only 18% of companies have enterprise-wide AI councils with decision-making authority, despite widespread adoption, creating significant operational and legal risks
Data Monetization Evolution: Companies using generative AI to transform raw data into actionable intelligence see 11% of revenue from data monetization—five times more than underperforming peers
User Adaptation Critical: Half of AI performance gains come from improved user prompts, not just better models, highlighting overlooked human factors in deployment
Security Breaches: 13% of organizations report AI model breaches, with 97% lacking proper access controls despite rising implementation across enterprises
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Paul Estes
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ORGANIZATIONAL INSIGHT
AI Governance Questions Keeping Leaders Awake
Brief: While 72% of companies now use AI, only 18% have enterprise-wide councils with authority to make responsible AI governance decisions, creating significant risks as adoption accelerates. As recent legal settlements demonstrate, AI governance framework transparency is no longer optional.
Breakdown:
IBM research shows executives sensitive to the ethical costs of GenAI deployment are 27% more likely to see their organization outperform on revenue growth.
Stanford's AI Index 2025 reports that 78% of organizations used AI in 2024, up from 55% in 2023, yet only 11% have fully implemented fundamental AI governance.
Organizations struggle to demonstrate measurable business value from responsible AI investments beyond basic compliance requirements, with 49% citing difficulty in estimating AI project value as the primary adoption obstacle.
Why it matters: Organizations implementing comprehensive AI governance frameworks gain competitive advantages, while those delaying face escalating compliance costs and business risks.
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RESEARCH PAPER
McKinsey: Data Monetization in the Age of GenAI
Brief: By harnessing GenAI, companies can leapfrog from selling data to building robust data products that deliver actionable intelligence. Top-performing organizations attribute 11% of their revenue to data monetization—over five times more than their lower-performing peers.
Breakdown:
GenAI accelerates movement up the data pyramid, turning raw data not just into insight but into intelligence that can serve as the foundation for building entirely new businesses.
More than 90% of organizational data is unstructured. GenAI changes that by cleaning, analyzing, and "productizing" unstructured data quickly while making it connectable—turning isolated signals into strategic intelligence.
Organizations are using GenAI to build data products that package, prepare, and transform raw data into actionable insights, with users increasingly demanding decision-ready intelligence rather than raw benchmarks.
Why it matters: The data brokerage model faces a multidirectional squeeze as raw data becomes commoditized, access tightens under regulatory pressure, and synthetic data delivers comparable performance at lower cost. Companies must rethink how GenAI impacts data productization, working toward AI agents that act autonomously on insights.
Insights, Research, and News
The New York Times reports that OpenAI is freely sharing two of its A.I. models used to power online chatbots in a major shift toward open source, hoping to level the playing field and ensure businesses stick with its technology as rivals like Meta and DeepSeek embrace open-source approaches.
Harvard Business Review finds that when reviewers believed an engineer had used AI, they rated that engineer's competence 9% lower on average, despite reviewing identical work. The authors of the research suggest an approach for addressing the issue.
MIT Sloan discovers that only half of performance gains seen after using a more advanced AI model come from the model itself. The other half comes from how users adapted their prompts, with AI-assisted individuals completing tasks 16% faster while producing significantly longer, more comprehensive solutions.
Andreessen Horowitz analyzes that AI app generation platforms aren't locked in zero-sum battles but are carving out differentiated spaces and coexisting, similar to foundation models. The market is segmenting with platforms specializing in prototyping, personal software, and production apps.
Deloitte’s predicts in its CEO’s Guide to Tech Trends 2025 that AI will become so fundamentally woven into the fabric of our lives that it's everywhere and foundational that we stop noticing it. 78% of leaders expect to increase overall AI spending in the next fiscal year, requiring CEOs to ensure investments lead to requisite ROI.
IBM reveals that 13% of organizations reported breaches of AI models or applications, while 97% of compromised organizations report not having AI access controls in place. Organizations using AI extensively throughout security operations saved an average $1.9 million in breach costs.
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Paul Estes
Editor-in-Chief
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