Insights

Commentary and analysis on the board-level discipline of AI oversight governance. Short, argued, and grounded in fiduciary duty.

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The Argument
Governance Is the Accelerant

Organizations treat AI governance as a brake on adoption. They are measuring the wrong velocity. True speed isn't how fast developers can build; it's how fast the board is willing to let them ship.

By Brian J. Allen, Executive Director · June 23, 2026

Center Papers

Center Paper No. 1
The Caremark AI Liability Roadmap

Delaware's oversight doctrine applied to AI. Six cases built one standard for boards and officers, and one program answers it. The Center's flagship analysis, with a downloadable PDF.

By Brian J. Allen, Executive Director · June 18, 2026 · ~25 min read
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Center Paper No. 2
The AI Regulatory Enforcement Landscape

The 2026 enforcement environment, mapped. Four forces converging on one demand, and the obligation that stayed stable through a year of repeals, deferrals, and preemption fights.

By Brian J. Allen, Executive Director · June 18, 2026 · ~15 min read
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Center Paper No. 3
The Committee Fallacy

Assigning AI risk to a committee is not governing it. The anatomy of the oversight program, five pillars and fourteen domains, and the Delaware doctrine that decides whether a committee actually governs.

By Brian J. Allen, Executive Director · June 18, 2026 · ~12 min read
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Center Paper No. 4
Builders and Buyers

Most regulated institutions deploy AI they did not build, and accountability does not transfer with the contract. Four bodies of law, four industries, one principle.

By Brian J. Allen, Executive Director · June 18, 2026 · ~10 min read
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Center Paper No. 5
Agentic AI and the Oversight Lens

When AI acts rather than advises, the banking agencies just scoped it out of their model risk framework. Why the oversight program is the only framework that currently reaches it.

By Brian J. Allen, Executive Director · June 18, 2026 · ~12 min read
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The Oversight Brief

June 2026
Deadlines move. The obligation does not.

The EU's Digital Omnibus package, which would defer the AI Act's high-risk obligations, is provisionally agreed but not yet adopted. Why institutions planning to the expected deferral rather than the enacted date are making a bet, and most are making it without a record.

Essays

The Test
The Informed Decision Standard: what "good enough" actually means

Boards keep asking whether their AI governance is sufficient. The honest answer is a test, not a checklist: can the organization demonstrate, in evidence, that it made an informed decision about AI risk?

By Brian J. Allen, Executive Director · May 19, 2026 · ~5 min read
Brief · See Center Paper No. 1
Caremark comes for AI

AI oversight is not a new legal theory. It is the existing duty of board oversight, established in Caremark and sharpened in Marchand, applied to the newest mission-critical risk.

By Brian J. Allen, Executive Director · April 28, 2026 · ~5 min read
Brief · See Center Paper No. 3
An AI committee is not a governance program

Forming a committee is the most common response to AI risk, and the most misleading. A committee is a venue. Governance is a program. The difference is what a court will ask about.

By Brian J. Allen, Executive Director · March 31, 2026 · ~5 min read
The Problem
The Velocity Gap

AI is being adopted faster than most organizations can govern it. The distance between the two speeds is where fiduciary risk, regulatory exposure, and missed opportunity all live.

By Brian J. Allen, Executive Director · March 3, 2026 · ~5 min read

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