When AI starts regulating: The quiet revolution in compliance

There was a time when the rules had weight—not just on paper, but in principle. They sat in binders, thick and worn, passed from one department to another like a shared memory. You’d open them and see the marks of people who had wrestled with the language—questions in the margins, underlines that hinted at old debates, initials left behind like quiet fingerprints.

If something broke, you didn’t flail. You went to the source. There was always a paragraph. Always a name. You might not agree with how the decision had been made, but you could…