AI Risk Is the New GRC Frontier

AI tools now touch every part of the business. Marketing uses AI copy generators. Engineering uses AI code assistants. Support uses AI chatbots. Every one of these tools creates risk your GRC program was not built to catch.

Traditional frameworks cover data privacy, access control, and vendor risk. Most did not anticipate a chatbot leaking customer PII in a prompt, or an AI agent making unauthorized changes to a production system. GRC teams need new controls for this reality.

Three steps get you started.

Build an AI use inventory. List every AI tool in use across the company, not only the ones IT approved.

Set clear AI policy. Define what data belongs in an AI prompt and what data stays out. Put it in writing.

Add AI risk to your existing risk register. Score it like any other operational risk: likelihood, impact, control effectiveness.

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