What is the difference between AI governance, AI compliance, and AI safety?

Answer

AI governance is the organizational framework of policies, roles, and processes for managing AI systems. AI compliance is the mapping of those practices to specific legal and regulatory requirements. AI safety is the technical discipline of preventing AI systems from causing harm. In practice, governance sets the rules, compliance proves you follow them, and safety ensures the technology doesn't fail dangerously. Agent governance platforms like AgentCompliant unify all three at the runtime layer.