Credo AI

Over the past few months I have sat in dozens of conversations with CIOs, CISOs, and Chief Data Officers about agentic AI. The same picture keeps emerging. The tooling landscape is exploding. Every week there is a new agentic AI governance vendor, a new agentic AI security vendor, a new agentic AI observability vendor. Every category is using overlapping language. Every dashboard claims to do what the others do. The problems are bigger than the tools. Agents are taking actions. They are calling tools. They are spawning sub-agents. They are operating across systems no single team owns. And the playbooks that worked in the past do not work here. Regulators have begun to say so openly. SR 26-2 wrote agentic AI out of the model risk management framework that has governed banking for fifteen years. The EU AI Act enforcement windows keep shifting. No precedent exists. The chasm between builders and governors is collapsing. Builders are now operating where governance lives. Governors need to become AI builders. Every agent they ship makes a decision an auditor will eventually examine. Governance cannot sit outside the build anymore. It has to be embedded inside it. Understanding the technology, the threat surface, the regulatory direction, the architectural distinctions between AI security and AI governance and AI observability --- none of it is optional anymore, and all are critical capabilities. Credo AI created the AI governance category six years ago. We govern AI at some of the largest financial institutions, insurance companies, healthcare systems, defense contractors, and global enterprises in the world. We have spent the last year working through and discussing agentic AI deployments with our customers and with the builders inside them. This work has produced lessons we want to share. Today we are releasing the Credo AI 𝐅𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐀𝐈 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐄𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬. It is written for the CIO, CISO, and CDO trying to make sense of a market that is moving faster than the playbooks. It covers what governance has to do that security and observability cannot. What the agentic enterprise actually requires. The five tests every claim of agentic governance should be measured against. And the architecture that lets enterprises deploy agents safely at scale. #AIGovernance #AgenticAI 🔗 Download our Field Guide here and let us know what you think in the comments: https://lnkd.in/egZ2_f5R 👇 The link is in the comments. If you want to talk through how this applies to your environment, reach out. We are here to help. #AIgovernance #AIsecurity #AgenticAIGovernance #trustworthAI

The AI conversation keeps getting framed as a choice. We are past the point. Capability or trust. Speed or guardrails. Innovation or governance. None of these options are mutually exclusive. At the TIME 100 #TIME100 Summit, I was reminded why these conversations and questions persist. The real work — the work that makes AI actually work for humanity — is running both races at once. The race to build the most powerful technology the world has ever seen, and engender the trust & control plane that lets us deploy it with confidence. Not one or the other. Both. Together. That’s the only version of this future worth building. Thank you to TIME and Jessica Sibley for convening a room that reflected the full scope of this moment. World leaders like António Guterres, business and technology leaders including Dr. Athina Kanioura , Arianna Huffington , Richard Edelman , and Glenn Fogel , Clara Shih , and cultural voices like Kate Hudson, Victoria Beckham— and many others shaping this moment. AI isn’t just a technology story. It’s a human one. Two things became unmistakably clear to me, sharpened by Nikhil K. brilliant moderation: 1) We need intentional investment in AI trust and governance — and it accelerates capability, not the other way around. The question isn’t whether AI will be powerful. It already is. The question is whether we can build AI with the highest capabilities to transform the world — with maximum control and confidence. As an AI optimist, my work is grounded in a simple but urgent question: how do we get this right — not for a few, but for everyone? This is the work we’ve been doing at Credo AI for six years, long before “AI governance” was a headline. AI trust isn’t the brake. It’s what lets you step on the gas. 2) The builder economy is here — but access isn’t equal. AI is democratizing creation in ways we’ve never seen. We are in the new paradigm where everyone can be a builder. But if women, underrepresented communities, and the next generation aren’t at the center of this shift, we don’t get broad prosperity. We get a narrower version of the same old economy, just faster. At Credo AI, we are committed to leading by example in a trusted builder economy. The future of AI won’t be defined by the technology alone. It will be defined by the choices we make — who we include, what we prioritize, and how intentionally we shape its impact. Both races. Together. That’s how this technology actually works for humanity. The opportunity is immense. And it’s on all of us to rise to meet the opportunity of tomorrow. 👇link to our conversation below in the comments - let me know what resonates with you #TIME100 #credoai #aigovernance #trustworthyai