# AI Governance

Engineering teams need to ship code quickly without creating compliance or reputational risks. AI governance is the set of processes, policies, and oversight mechanisms that ensure your AI systems are developed, deployed, and used responsibly. 

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### How Cortex helps with AI Governance

Your organization can use Cortex to embed AI Governance directly into the developer workflow:

* Enforce project scaffolding at scale with required governance and data usage policies via Workflows
* Track all AI/ML services across your organization, giving a single source of truth for what models exist, who owns them, and which compliance checks they've passed
* Encode AI governance rules via Scorecards
* Use Cortex MCP to get quick answers relevant to AI governance

## Drive AI Governance in Cortex

Learn how to use Cortex features to drive AI Governance: [**Automate AI Governance**](https://docs.cortex.io/solutions/ai-governance/configure)**.**

Learn about maintaining and continuously improving your AI initiatives: [**AI Governance in action**](https://docs.cortex.io/solutions/ai-governance/in-action)**.**


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