Every organization deploying AI is creating and accessing records whether they know it or not. So, who owns the AI output? What's the retention schedule? Is it discoverable? Is it defensible? These aren't IT questions or legal questions. They're records questions. They always were. And AI just raised the stakes by orders of magnitude.
Liz makes the structural case for why records managers and information governance professionals are uniquely positioned to lead AI governance inside their organizations and gives them the frameworks to do it now, without waiting for perfect data or perfect conditions.
Why This Matters Now
Records management has never been more critical or more overlooked. Every AI conversation, every generated document, every automated workflow creates records that need governance. The professionals who understand that are sitting on the most important skill set in the building.