Yesterday I published the second article in this 12-week series on authority under algorithmic conditions.
This week’s focus is simple, but uncomfortable:
Automation now operates at machine speed.
Escalation in many organisations still operates at institutional speed.
Three structural points I explore:
1. Governance latency is real.
AI-enabled workflows act in real time. Escalation often depends on review cycles, committees, and interpretive judgment.
2. Drift rarely looks like failure.
There is no outage, just gradual distributional shift across scale. By the time it surfaces externally, leaders are explaining rather than governing.
3. Intervention must be designed, not assumed.
If override authority, escalation triggers, and decision ownership are ambiguous, governance is procedural, not structural.
Governance speed now matters because accountability has not slowed down.
Full article here:
If you are responsible for outcomes shaped by automated workflows, this is not theoretical. It is architectural.
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