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Governing AI as Critical Infrastructure | Dr. Tuboise Floyd, AFCEA TechNet Cyber 2026

Published on: 16th June, 2026

A deepfake of two people fighting. Footage that was never filmed. No hack. No intrusion. The system did its job. The AI governance problem hides exactly there.

From the AFCEA TechNet Cyber 2026 stage in Baltimore, Dr. Tuboise Floyd reframes the AI threat to critical infrastructure. The danger rarely arrives as an outside breach. It walks in as an authenticated user, fully trusted, turning AI tools toward harm: a flag officer issuing an order he never gave, a grid operator on a verification call that never happened. The fix runs through structure, crosswalking control against ISO/IEC 42001 and NIST, turning each failure into a teaching object, and auditing the AI tools already inside your walls.

Chapters

0:00 Pedagogy and the Project Cerebellum AI database

0:24 The deepfake that was never filmed

1:25 The real threat is not access

2:00 Crosswalking control to ISO/IEC 42001 and NIST

2:39 Who actually owns the failure

3:01 Audit what already runs in your environment

3:16 When AI costs the same as human labor

Links

Human Signal: https://humansignal.io

The AI Governance Briefing: https://theaigovernancebriefing.com

Failure Files: https://aigovernancefailures.com

Measured for Trust: https://humansignal.io/#measured-for-trust

The Workflow Thesis (SSRN): https://ssrn.com/abstract=6644860

Panel

Dr. Tuboise Floyd, Founder and Chief Sensemaking Officer, Human Signal

Karen Jackson, Apogee Strategic Partners

Taiye Lambo, HISPI Project Cerebellum

Moderator: COL Kathy Swacina, USA (Ret.), Kolibri Strategy and Project Cerebellum

Event: AFCEA TechNet Cyber 2026, Baltimore, MD

TAIMScore and the TAIM control standards belong to Taiye Lambo and HISPI.

Govern the machine. Or be the resource it consumes.

#AIGovernance #CriticalInfrastructure #Deepfakes #ZeroTrust #TechNetCyber

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ABOUT THE HOST

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Dr. Tuboise Floyd, PhD is the Founder and Chief Sensemaking Officer of Human Signal, Editor in Chief of The AI Governance Record, and a TAIMScore™ Certified Assessor. He holds a PhD from Auburn University and is a member of the HISPI Advocacy & Education Working Group (Project Cerebellum).

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Govern the machine. Or be the resource it consumes.



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The AI Governance Briefing with Dr. Tuboise Floyd
The AI Governance Briefing serves operators navigating institutions disrupted by artificial intelligence. Hosted by Dr. Tuboise Floyd — founder, researcher, and principal analyst at Human Signal.

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