{"product_id":"the-capability-debt-why-ai-is-exposing-what-organizations-never-built-paperback","title":"The Capability Debt: Why AI is Exposing What Organizations Never Built - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKristen Swearingen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAI doesn't fail organizations. It exposes them.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost organizations tell themselves a comfortable story: \"Our controls were designed for a different time.\" In many cases, the truth is harder -those controls were never real in the first place. They lived in policies, training modules, and sign-offs that looked responsible but couldn't be applied under pressure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAI collapses the distance between intent and consequence. It accelerates decisions, multiplies access to sensitive data, and moves judgment into everyday workflows -often operated by people who were never trained for competence, only compliance. When something goes wrong, the cost doesn't land on strategy decks. It lands on customers, employees, and the enterprise's credibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Capability Debt\u003c\/strong\u003e is not a book about \"responsible AI\" as a moral aspiration. It is about organizational responsibility as an operational fact. It explains why AI doesn't create new categories of risk so much as it \u003cstrong\u003eindustrializes existing failures\u003c\/strong\u003e: policy mistaken for control, training mistaken for competence, governance delayed until the end, accountability diffused across committees, and speed rewarded while escalation is punished.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInstead of offering another set of principles, this book replaces narrative with \u003cstrong\u003eproof\u003c\/strong\u003e. It introduces practical mechanisms that turn governance into enforceable infrastructure: the \u003cstrong\u003eMinimum Evidence Standard (MES)\u003c\/strong\u003e, risk tiering and controls by tier, decision rights written in verbs, workflow-embedded guardrails, competence checks tied to access, go-live gates that require evidence before scale, and board-level reporting that demands visibility and auditability.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is for executives, board members, and operators responsible for scaling AI beyond pilots -into real workflows, real decisions, and real consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt doesn't ask for confession.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt asks for evidence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause in the AI era, hope is not a control.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 250\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.57 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 11, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53376951419187,"sku":"9798295700828","price":27.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/GGCz1Vyrge9798295700828.webp?v=1779310546","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-capability-debt-why-ai-is-exposing-what-organizations-never-built-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}