CIO analyst identifies 'consequence blindness' as enterprises fail to track systemic impacts of AI deployment

According to CIO contributor John Reuben, enterprises maintain extensive AI oversight infrastructure including dashboards, risk forums, and audit findings yet still fail to identify systemic consequences and governance gaps from AI deployment. Reuben characterizes the problem not as insufficient visibility into activity but as organizations' inability to understand where consequences propagate across technology, compliance, vendor, and business domains when AI systems change.