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Before You Deploy AI, Ask These Questions — Or Pay the Price | Jill Stover Heinze
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- Business Roundtable
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- May 14, 2026
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Summary
You are moving fast on AI. Your team is experimenting. You are deploying tools. But you have not asked the critical questions that will determine whether you are building competitive advantage or exposing your business, your people, and your customers to serious risk. Jill Stover Heinze has spent her career helping organizations think through complex technology decisions. When generative AI hit the market, she realized that speed was replacing judgment. Companies were racing to deploy without asking basic questions about data, bias, security, privacy, and alignment with their values. She created an AI Trust Architecture framework to help leaders slow down and ask the right questions before deployment, not after something breaks. In this episode, David Carr and Jill break down what responsible AI governance actually looks like in practice, which questions every leader should be asking right now, and why slowing down is not falling behind. In this episode: Why most organizations are making Band-Aid decisions about AI instead of building intentional governance The fundamental difference between speed and readiness in AI deployment What data flows you should be questioning in every AI tool you consider How to identify and evaluate bias before it impacts your customers The role of privacy and permissions in responsible AI adoption How to align AI decisions with your core values and business strategy Why your instinct that something is not right about an AI implementation deserves serious attention The four AI horizons framework for asking the right questions at each stage About Jill Stover Heinze: Jill Stover Heinze is an AI Trust Architect and founder of Saddle-Stitch Consulting. With a background in user research, product strategy, and library science, Jill has spent over…