Tech Barometer · 2026-02-26 · 8 min
AI governance ensures that AI implementations are effective, safe, and responsible. i-GENTIC AI CEO Zahra Timsah says agentic AI makes it easier to enforce guardrails for safe and responsible AI. Get tech leader insights to move faster and smarter Get more stories by subscribing to The Forecast . Podcast transcript: Zahra Timsah: We have crossed a threshold where AI is no longer experimental at this point, right? It's kind of like an infrastructure. AI models are embedded in credit scoring, healthcare diagnostics, legal reviews. Even if you look at national defense, you have AI. They're no longer tools. They're decision makers in digital form. This is how you can think about that. When you reach that scale, governance is not optional anymore. It's kind of existential, so to speak. Jason Lopez: Zahra Timsah, co-founder and CEO of iGentic AI, asserts that the deployment of AI in an organization requires a real-time governance layer to help see what an AI system is doing. This is the Tech Barometer podcast. I'm Jason Lopez. What you're about to hear from her is a part of our Thought Leader series on AI.
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