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AI accountability after the demo is over

Every Tuesday, a short field note on what was approved, who owns the decision, and what evidence survives after deployment.

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May 19, 2026

The Governance Gap
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The AI Model Started Failing in November. The Organization Found Out in February.

A fraud model ran for seventy-seven days without the controls that justified its deployment. The detection worked. An URGENT email landed at 8:47 on a Tuesday with the sensitivity rate collapsed to 71. The gap was never detection. It was the distance between that email and the model risk committee that met on Thursday, while Maria's rent came due in four days and Patricia's April retirement stopped being certain.

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May 12, 2026

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Four years later, a court letter explained the 1:50am rejection.

The machine rejected Derek Mobley at 1:50 in the morning, before any recruiter arrived the next day. Four years later, a federal court letter told him a machine may have scored his application before anyone saw his name. The organization that deployed the scoring tool had a vendor contract. No named person inside it had ever written down what the system was permitted to decide.

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