It's requisite governance, the cybernetic principle that a system's controls must match the variety of

I have been reflecting on this question while revisiting an article I wrote on Cybernetic Control. In Cybernetic Control, I described four principles that follow from this law: When the variety of the As I noted in Cybernetic Control, feedback has a significant weakness.

domain has its own name for it: Total Quality Management, Safety II, HOP, Functional & Process Safety, Cybernetics risk (failure to deliver value) Surface operational insights before issues become incidents Establish cybernetic

sectors: Hazard isolation HAZOP studies Functional and process safety approaches STAMP/STPA/CAST analysis Cybernetic

Cybernetics Comes Full Circle For those who know my work, you’ll recognize the influence of W. Ross Ashby and the principles of cybernetics in how I approach governance. The cybernetic approach to governance, which might have seemed theoretical a few years ago, is becoming And in the context of the reset, cybernetics offers something else: a way to prevent the next round of

Following the laws of cybernetics, to be a good regulator they must be a model of the system they are An AI Regulatory Framework: Intelligent Compliance Laws of AI Regulation for Compliance Cybernetics pioneer

areas of practice, including Lean Management, Lean Startup, Lean TPS, Engineering, Systems Thinking, Cybernetics

The cybernetics law of Inevitable Ethical Inadequacy is simply stated as, “If you don’t specify that

Cybernetics has a law for it: the law of inevitable ethical inadequacy.

. – The cybernetics law of Inevitable Ethical Inadequacy (paraphrased) The goals we set are important

You cannot control what you cannot match There is a basic principle in cybernetics, the study of control process safety and HAZOP, which find the deviations before they become disasters; control theory and cybernetics

This intersection between brakes and compliance mirrors the principles of cybernetics —a field that studies