🌊Planning for 2026? Federal Rules & ISACA Checklist Are Reshaping AI

Growing signals out of Washington that AI oversight may be moving toward a more centralized, national approach, raising questions about how consistency, enforcement, and accountability could evolve across the regulatory landscape.

At the same time, updated guidance from ISACA highlights how expectations around AI are maturing, with greater emphasis on governance, ownership, and fitting AI into existing risk and control frameworks rather than treating it as something entirely new.

Taken together, these shifts suggest AI is moving out of the experimental phase and into more formal oversight, where organizations will need to think less about whether to govern AI, and more about how well their existing processes can support it.