# The missing layer in AI governance: capital before commitment.

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Podcast: [Trustworthy AI : De-risk business adoption of AI](https://stenobird.com/podcast/trustworthy-ai-de-risk-business-adoption-of-ai-6568914)
Published: 2026-07-01T12:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Most AI risk conversations begin after capital has already moved. This one begins before. In this episode of the Trustworthy AI Podcast, I sit down with Ernest Nicholson, CEO of SKEET Global Services and Managing Principal of Zephyr IDP, to examine a question most boards and capital allocators are not yet asking: how do you de-risk an AI infrastructure deal before capital commits? Ernest brings three decades of watching capital move into infrastructure at the wrong moment, as a Presidential A...

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