Governance and responsible adoption of AI in high-stakes industries, by Pedram Madani.https://pedrammadani.com/enhttps://pedrammadani.com/essays/pilot-dies-in-production/https://pedrammadani.com/essays/pilot-dies-in-production/Go-live is treated as the finish line. It is the starting line. Most pilots do not die at launch, they die quietly in the months after, because the day they went live they became nobody's job.Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedrammadani.com/essays/the-eu-ai-act-in-plain-terms/https://pedrammadani.com/essays/the-eu-ai-act-in-plain-terms/The regulation is long, and most of the fear around it is misplaced. For almost any organisation the practical question is small: which tier are you in, and what does that actually require of you?Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedrammadani.com/essays/trendslop/https://pedrammadani.com/essays/trendslop/A lot of what you are told about AI is built so that nothing could ever prove it false. That is not insight. It is trend-following in a suit, and there is a simple test for it.Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedrammadani.com/essays/the-demo-to-ship-delta/https://pedrammadani.com/essays/the-demo-to-ship-delta/Almost every AI pilot demos beautifully, and only about one in twenty ever reaches production. The distance between those two facts is where the work actually lives.Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedrammadani.com/essays/the-management-gap/https://pedrammadani.com/essays/the-management-gap/The failure numbers keep getting blamed on data and models. Read them closely and the same gap shows up every time: nobody owns what happens after the pilot.Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://pedrammadani.com/essays/what-this-is/https://pedrammadani.com/essays/what-this-is/Why I write about proof rather than prediction, and what I will and will not put on this site.Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT