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Card #c18IR // #c18Synthesis

The central purpose of governance is not to prevent the use of LLMs. It is to make valuable uses repeatable while keeping failure within tolerable bounds.

— In our words · Source: Large Language Models in Finance (Miquel Noguer i Alonso)

[Use when]

Use when a governance or model-risk proposal is being dismissed as bureaucracy that slows the business down.

[Why it matters]

This reframes governance from veto to engineering discipline: repeatability of the wins, boundedness of the losses. It is the definition you hand to a business line that reads every control proposal as innovation-blocking.

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