Microsoft CSO acknowledges that humans are struggling to keep up with AI advancement, reckons we've got a 'narrowing window to understand AI' before it's, well, too late
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When a major vendor’s CSO says oversight is lagging capability, that’s a cue for operators to stop treating AI governance as a compliance afterthought. Stand up a cross-functional review loop now—model behavior, data flows, and escalation paths—before your own deployment pace outruns your ability to understand it.
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