If It Can’t Stop the Purchase, It Doesn’t Govern AI task forces are multiplying. The real test is whether they can bind the vendor, interrupt procurement and reassign risk.
Delete the Tie. The Inference Stays. You consent to what you disclose, not to the graph everyone else builds around you. What a platform infers from it survives anything you delete.
Your Data Isn't the Asset. The Inference Is. Consent governs what gets collected. Value is captured at what gets inferred — and three CJEU rulings plus a €200M DMA fine show Europe's institutions already know.
When Execution Becomes Callable The company of the future runs on a resource it has stopped producing.
The price is zero. The extraction is real. Consumer surplus isn't disappearing in AI markets — it's being converted into the monopolist's asset.
You don't have an AI strategy. You have an exposure. Three companies control 63% of the cloud everything else runs on. The trust era explains what happens next.
Truth is now a billable input AI broke the assumption that trusted systems produce trustworthy records. Integrity is now a contract term, not a control.