by Patrick Upmann
AI governance is no longer a question of if — but of when responsibility becomes real.
Across boardrooms, regulators, insurers, and system architects, one pattern is unmistakable: the gap between AI ambition and governance reality is widening faster than most organizations are prepared to admit.
The AI Governance Gap Brief is my monthly briefing series published on LinkedIn.
It decodes where AI governance fails to translate from policy, standards, and principles into operational responsibility, budget decisions, and liability-ready structures.
Each issue focuses on one concrete gap — not as an abstract ethical debate, but as a systemic governance problem with direct implications for boards, executives, regulators, and market actors.
This Brief is written from the perspective of practice, architecture, and accountability.
Not from checklists. Not from generic compliance playbooks.
Each edition connects:
- regulatory reality (EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001, liability regimes),
- market signals (insurance, procurement, capital allocation),
- and system architecture decisions that determine whether AI governance actually holds under pressure.
More than 2,100+ global readers — from regulators and researchers to board members and C-level leaders — already follow the Brief to understand where governance breaks, why it breaks, and what needs to change next.
Below you’ll find a curated archive of all published issues.
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Each week, we decode how the world is closing (or widening) its AI governance gap — across policy, standards, and real-world implementation.
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Each issue of the Brief expands this conversation — transforming insights from the Gap into actionable governance intelligence.
➡ The AI Governance Gap Brief – Issue #13 The AI Governance Gap – The AI Governance Gap Is the Time Gap
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➡ The AI Governance Gap Brief – Issue #12 The AI Governance Gap – Why We Still Don’t Budget for AI Governance Integration – and why Liability is no longer Abstract
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➡ The AI Governance Gap Brief – Issue #11 The AI Governance Gap – Insurability is the new reality test for AI governance
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➡ The AI Governance Gap Brief – Issue #10: The AI Governance Responsibility Gap — and Why Access to Responsibility Matters
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➡ The AI Governance Gap Brief – Issue #9: The Governance Gap: The Year Governance Went Operational
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➡ The AI Governance Gap Brief – Issue #8 : The Procurement Governance Gap
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➡ The AI Governance Gap Brief – Issue #7 : THE CHILD GOVERNANCE GAP
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➡ The AI Governance Gap Brief – Issue #6 : THE AGENTIC GOVERNANCE COLLAPSE
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➡ The AI Governance Gap Brief – Issue #5 : THE SHADOW AI EXPLOSION – WHY ENTERPRISES ARE LOSING CONTROL
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➡ The AI Governance Gap Brief – Issue #4 : The Power Gap – The High-Risk Finance AI Governance Gap
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➡ The AI Governance Gap Brief – Issue #3 : The Power Gap – How Systemic AI Governance Ends Techno-Feudalism
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➡ The AI Governance Gap Brief – Issue #2 : The Human AI Governance Gap
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➡ The AI Governance Gap Brief – Issue #1: Why Architecture Beats Checklists
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