Who Approved This Bot?

AI is moving fast. Accountability has to keep up.AI is no longer just answering questions. It is recommending, deciding, generating, automating, and increasingly taking action. That creates enormous opportunity, but it also creates new risks for organizations, leaders, and professionals responsible for putting AI into the real world.Who Approved This Bot? is a practical, accessible guide to AI governance without the bureaucracy.Through real-world scenarios, plain-English explanations, practical frameworks, checklists, and governance tools, this book shows how organizations can move from vague AI principles to clear accountability and operational control.Inside, you’ll learn how to:Define who owns an AI system and its decisionsIdentify and manage AI risks without slowing innovationEstablish practical controls for generative and agentic AIBuild governance into the AI lifecycleCreate escalation paths, monitoring, and human oversightAvoid 'governance theatre' and focus on controls that actually workTurn AI governance into a business advantage rather than a compliance burdenWritten for business leaders, technology professionals, AI teams, risk and governance professionals, students, and anyone responsible for deploying AI, this is not a legal textbook or a collection of abstract principles.It is a practical roadmap for answering one increasingly important question:When AI acts, who approved it?Practical. Actionable. Human.