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Practical guidance on operational AI governance

Written for the people who have to make governance work in practice: risk, compliance, quality, security, data and the executives accountable for the outcome.

Free 28-page eBook

Free eBook: The Irish Guide to AI Governance

A 28-page guide by Richie Higgins on what the EU AI Act means after 2 August 2026 and the practical steps Irish organisations should take next. Free PDF, no form.

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  1. 019 minute read

    What is AI governance?

    A working definition, the difference between policy and operational governance, and the eight capabilities an organisation actually needs.

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  2. 0211 minute read

    EU AI Act: operational governance requirements

    Risk categories, provider and deployer duties, and the operational record-keeping expectations that follow from them.

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  3. 037 minute read

    Enterprise AI governance checklist

    Forty practical checks across inventory, assessment, controls, review, decision, monitoring and evidence.

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  4. 0410 minute read

    AI risk assessment: a practical method

    Scope, intake, prohibited-practice screening, deterministic scoring, mandatory floors, explanation traces and independent review.

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  5. 0510 minute read

    Governing autonomous AI agents

    Identity, tool inventories, autonomy tiers, approval gates on consequence, runtime monitoring and evidence of every action.

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  6. 068 minute read

    Shadow AI: finding the AI you have not governed

    Why registers are always shorter than reality, how to discover embedded and unapproved AI from artefacts, and how to bring findings under governance.

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  7. 078 minute read

    Evidence expectations for AI governance

    The record expected for a single AI system, why documents are not evidence, integrity and attribution, and export on demand.

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  8. 089 minute read

    AI ethics and governance: from principles to operational control

    How to translate fairness, transparency, human oversight and accountability into assessed obligations, operating controls and an append-only evidence record.

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