What every board director needs to know, ask, decide and evidence — before the regulator, auditor, insurer or investor asks first.
Who This Book Is For
The first Playbook told compliance officers and COOs what to build. This one tells boards what to look for, what to ask, and what to do when the answers coming back from management are not good enough.
You know what you know. You have a reasonable sense of what you do not know. This book maps the unknown unknowns — where the real board exposure sits — and tells you what to do about it.
The most common failure in AI governance is not that firms have no oversight. It is that they have no evidence of oversight. This book gives you the tools to tell the difference.
Under Ireland's Individual Accountability Framework, you need documented, genuine, good-faith exercise of governance responsibilities. This book tells you exactly what that requires.
Competing priorities — DORA, CSRD, MiFID II, GDPR — have pushed AI governance down the agenda. This book gives you the framework to move it to the top, and the minutes language to prove you did.
Chapter 12
Ask these five questions at your next board or risk committee meeting. Note the answers in the minutes. If management cannot answer them clearly today, you now know exactly what needs to be fixed.
If the document does not exist, the inventory has not been done. That is the first gap to close.
Accountability that is not named is not accountability. Under the IAF, the board needs a person, not a team or a department.
The Central Bank will not accept a description of what your oversight process looks like. It will ask to see the logs. Your board should ask the same thing first.
As a Deployer, you cannot outsource compliance to the vendor. If the vendor is non-compliant, your firm is still exposed.
If it has never found anything, why not? An oversight function that finds nothing is either not looking, or not empowered to act.
What's Inside
Each chapter ends with a Board Decision Required section. Information does not protect a board. Decisions, minutes, evidence and follow-through do.
Appendices included: Board minutes templates · AI governance dashboard template · Director challenge prompts · Vendor due diligence checklist · Example board resolution wording · Key Irish regulatory contacts
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About the Author
Dr Shane Brett has over twenty-five years of experience in the global investment funds and financial technology industry. He founded GECKO Governance — a RegTech company that built compliance management software for the global investment management industry, backed by institutional investors in the US and Europe.
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AI Governance · Global Perspectives · Dublin
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