AI governance depends on strong data governance. Agents operating on poor data will make confident, autonomous decisions based on unreliable or even hazardous inputs.

The organizations that get this right share one structural habit I think matters more than any policy document.

For workflows, governance needs to cover retrieval decisions, inter-agent communications and tool invocations, not just the final response.

AI governance depends on strong data governance. Agents operating on poor data will make confident, autonomous decisions based on unreliable or even hazardous inputs.