How IT Leaders Develop Personal AI Guardrails
InformationWeek, Tuesday, November 3rd, 2026
CIOs and IT leaders are building AI guardrails from frameworks like NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001 plus organization-specific governance.
As enterprises rush to deploy AI, including agents that exceed their instructions, CIOs must set guardrails without a clear rulebook.
Ashley Casovan of the IAPP AI Governance Center says frameworks such as the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and ISO 42001 offer a starting point, asking whether a governance board and accountable owners exist.
Because those frameworks are not use-case specific, organizations need their own context and a governance committee with policy, legal, ethics and technical expertise.
Such committees must define safe and responsible use for specific business cases, decide how to evaluate accuracy and bias, and apply existing internal policies to AI.