AI governance is often understood as the governance of AI systems.
Yet a different structural movement is becoming increasingly visible.
Governance is shifting its object.
No longer only:
Which action is permitted?
Which decision may be executed?
Increasingly, it is about:
Access to frontier capabilities (EU Frontier AI Expert Report)
Generation of context-specific policies (Google Semantic Governance)
Evidence as the basis for decisions
Context as a prerequisite for decision-making
Governance is moving further upstream in the decision process. It no longer regulates decisions alone.
It increasingly regulates the conditions under which decisions are formed.
This changes more than the location of governance.
It changes its object.