Detection Difficulty: The Boardroom's AI Governance Blind Spot

The article warns that boards face a governance gap where unauthorized AI use inside the enterprise can become a disclosure, customer-trust, regulatory, and oversight issue before the board is even aware, citing a May 2026 incident where sensitive customer data was ingested by an unauthorized AI application. It stresses that policies alone are not controls and that boards must ensure their organizations can detect AI risks before they become governance failures. This is highly actionable for SEA boards balancing rapid AI adoption with oversight discipline.