AI Governance

Boards are increasingly being told that their AI governance should be proportionate. Scaled to the risk the organisation carries, rather

An Immigration New Zealand automation failure raised a useful question about a claim we hear increasingly often in discussions about

Shadow AI is the governance problem many risk and compliance leaders are now grappling with. Not because the technology is

Is your board asking hard enough questions about what staff put into AI tools? This article is general governance commentary,

A recent iStart article described AI complacency as a growing risk for New Zealand organisations. Ethos Advisory’s observations from AI

In 2026 NZQA’s new integrated Quality Assurance Framework (iQAF) replaced the Evaluative Quality Assurance Framework that had been in place

Most boards now ask how their organisation is using AI. Fewer ask a harder question: what happens if the model

But a policy is not a governance framework. It needs one around it to have effect.

Ethos Advisory recently ran its AI governance review against a publicly available AI policy published by a New Zealand territorial authority. The findings illustrate a gap that appears consistently across sectors.