The safest factory is the one you can see: raw materials arrive, machines do predictable work, and when something fails you can point to the exact station that broke. AI flips that mental model. Our enterprise “assembly line” for decisions now runs in the dark across cloud systems, open source repositories, and black box models making probabilistic calls at machine speed. If you are responsible for integrated risk management, GRC, or security, that shift creates one urgent mandate: prove trust with defensible evidence.