Entering 2026 and the Age of AI
The New Year’s Resolution: Fixing the 1999 Infrastructure Governance Problem Before Data Velocity Fixes It for You As we enter 2026, some patterns are emerging with AI. What once failed slowly now fails at speed. Decisions propagate instantly. Harm scales before humans realize something is wrong. 2025 and the snowball effect of AI adoption is proving that artificial intelligence is no longer experimental. It is embedded in many organizations’ products, workflows, analytics, and decision-making systems across industries. Boards are asking harder questions. Regulators are accelerating guidance and enforcement. Engineering teams are moving faster than governance structures were designed to handle. Yet the central risk most organizations face is not new. We are entering the Age of AI while still carrying unresolved infrastructure governance problems from the late 1990s (cue lyrics from the Prince song: “2000, zero-zero, party over, oops, out of time…”). Back then, systems were connected be...