“You name an owner, build a small cross-functional team that includes people like IT, legal, and risk”
Public Risk Management · NCSAM 2026 WEEK 2 - AI Governance for Public Entities - Tamika Puckett
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in the first 30 days, name an AI owner and build a small cross-functional team (IT, legal, risk) to oversee AI governance
Said nearby on the same subject
“It would be helpful or useful for an organization to designate an AI governance lead. It effectively needs to cover various areas, IT, legal risk, HR, things like that.”
“Number two, lawyers need to educate members of the firm about the difference between traditional legal research using Westlaw and the use of generative artificial intelligence”
“Within the first day, you want somebody who can actually confirm what happened... Within the first week, legal and risk need to get eyes on it... whoever handles your cyber coverage should know it happened too.”