Within the next year, a routine governance question will be asked inside your organization.

It will not sound dramatic. It will not allege wrongdoing. It will be procedural.

“Do we know what the AI said?”

Not what your filings say. Not what your policies intend. What an external AI system actually produced, at the moment it was relied upon by someone else.

In many organizations, that question cannot be answered.

And there is no policy that explains why that is acceptable.