Why Your AI Committee Might Be Your Biggest AI Problem

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Ben Lorica and Evangelos Simoudis discuss the challenges enterprises face with AI governance and innovation.

In this episode, Ben Lorica and Evangelos Simoudis discuss how enterprises are structuring their internal AI efforts, highlighting the friction between top-down AI governance committees and bottom-up “shadow IT” innovation. Subscribe to the Gradient Flow Newsletter 📩 https://gradientflow.substack.com/ Subscribe: Apple · Spotify · Overcast · Pocket Casts · AntennaPod · Podcast Addict · Amazon · RSS. Detailed show notes - with links to many references - can be found on The Data Exc...

People in this episode

Host: Ben Lorica

Guest: Evangelos Simoudis

Topics covered

• AI governance
• enterprise AI
• shadow IT
• innovation
• top-down vs bottom-up

Keywords

• AI committee
• enterprise AI
• governance
• shadow IT
• innovation

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Organizations: Gradient Flow

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