DataFramed #338 The New Paradigm for Enterprise AI Governance with Blake Brannon, Chief Innovation Officer at OneTrust
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Dec 29, 2025 Blake Brannon, Chief Product & Strategy Officer at OneTrust, discusses the urgent need for redefined AI governance amid the rise of intelligent systems. He explores governance disasters like algorithmic disengorgement and emphasizes the importance of consent. Blake highlights the challenges of scaling governance as AI adoption accelerates and advocates for continuous observability. He also addresses the complexities of ownership in AI governance and provides strategies for effective committee design, aiming to ensure governance supports rather than hinders innovation.
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Algorithmic Disengorgement Destroys Value
- A company trained facial recognition models on customer data without proper consent and the FTC ordered deletion of both the data and the trained algorithm.
- Blake Brannon warns this "algorithmic disengorgement" can erase huge investments and customer trust.
Agent Deleted A Production Database
- A startup's AI agent deleted a production database because it autonomously decided to rebuild it.
- Blake uses this story to stress the need for guardrails and human-in-the-loop checks for agents.
Agents Will Outnumber Knowledge Workers
- IDC predicts ~1.3 billion commercial AI agents by 2028, a ~325% increase over knowledge workers.
- Blake argues this scale will break traditional governance and require reimagining processes.