AI Governance Council

Purpose

Designs the decision architecture for human oversight of AI development and deployment: who has authority to approve, delay, or kill an AI launch, how conflicts of interest are controlled, how incidents escalate, and how the whole thing is judged. This is organizational governance, not a multi-model technical pattern.

Core thesis: do not create a discussion forum and call it a council. A council without explicit authority, membership rules, conflict-of-interest controls, evidence standards, and audit trails is a discussion forum wearing a governance costume. Judge a council by launch quality, incident severity and recurrence, and how early dissent gets surfaced — never by how often it meets.

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