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Governing the Machine
How to navigate the risks of AI and unlock its true potential
Governing the Machine
How to navigate the risks of AI and unlock its true potential
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Description
'Responsible AI isn't just a technical challenge – it's a leadership imperative. This book offers essential guidance for anyone navigating the promise of deploying AI at scale. Read this book to understand how.' Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn and bestselling author of Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future
'Grounded, up-to-date, thorough, actionable – you could read this book, or you could pay consultants gazillions of dollars to tell you something less useful.' Stuart Russell OBE, Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
Governing the Machine is the essential guide to harnessing the transformative potential of AI, while navigating and mitigating its inherent risks.
Despite AI's power to innovate daily life and revolutionize organizations, public trust in AI is low. For companies to take full advantage of AI, it is vital that they adopt and communicate a responsible approach in order to build consumer, employee and investor confidence.
Governing the Machine provides business leaders with a practical and flexible framework for building comprehensive and robust AI governance. It empowers organizations to reap the benefits, while ensuring that AI is trustworthy, sustainable and a source of opportunity and profit rather than liability and harm.
Drawing on their vast experience advising leading global companies, the authors demystify:
· The process of defining AI principles and policies
· Recognizing and assessing risks
· Approaches for developing safeguards
· Selecting the right technical tools and training
· Evolving global AI regulations, laws and policies, including the EU AI Act and those in the US, UK and other key regions
Whether you're just beginning your AI journey or assessing your organization's approach, this book is your essential guide to seizing the opportunity – and avoiding the pitfalls – of AI systems.
Table of Contents
2. Why is AI governance important now?
3. Whose problem is it anyway?
4. Understanding AI risk – a survey of key frameworks
5. A consolidated AI risk landscape
6. Implementing AI governance
7. Principles, policies and standards
8. Accountability structure, teams and training
9. AI inventory, checkpoints and assessment process
10. Governance controls
11. AI governance platforms and tools
12. EU laws and regulations
13. United States laws and regulations
14. Notable global legal developments
15. Closing thoughts
Product details
Published | 23 Oct 2025 |
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Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 384 |
ISBN | 9781399426268 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Business |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
About the contributors
Reviews
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Responsible AI isn't just a technical challenge – it's a leadership imperative. This book offers essential guidance for anyone navigating the promise of deploying AI at scale. Read this book to understand how.
Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn and bestselling author of Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future
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AI's promise is real, but practical governance is required to earn trust and fulfil that promise. Governing the Machine is a refreshing, timely, and clear-eyed roadmap for leaders determined to scale AI and capitalize on its full potential.
Arvind Krishna, Chairman and CEO, IBM
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Grounded, up-to-date, thorough, actionable – you could read this book, or you could pay consultants gazillions of dollars to tell you something less useful.
Stuart Russell OBE, Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
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My advice to every business: ensure that you can harness the benefits of AI by proactively considering the important management and governance questions raised in this book.
James Manyika, Senior Vice President of Technology and Society, Google
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AI is the most anticipated technology of the 21st century – but deploying it is beset by risks and challenges. This highly accessible book is the first clear introduction to AI governance. Written by practitioners with a wealth of experience both of AI itself and of its role in enterprises, it deserves to become the handbook for the field.
Professor Michael Wooldridge, Ashall Professor of the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, University of Oxford
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Based on a wealth of practical experience, thoroughly researched and clearly explained, Governing the Machine is an invaluable companion for anyone implementing AI governance.
Sir Adrian Smith, Director, Alan Turing Institute, 2018-2023