Katie Fowler (Thomson Reuters Foundation): How 3,000 Companies Approach AI Governance

The Road to Accountable AI · Apr 30, 2026 · 37m · transcript

Good data about how companies are implementing AI governance programs is essential both for organizations to benchmark their efforts, and for observers to understand the state of development. In this episode, Katie Fowler, Director of Responsible Business at the Thomson Reuters Foundation, joins Kevin Werbach to discuss the findings of Responsible AI in Practice, a new report drawing on a global dataset of roughly 3,000 companies across 13 sectors.

Fowler unpacks the report's central finding: an enormous gap between corporate AI ambition and operational governance, with 44 percent of…