Glossary
G
10 entries beginning with G, the same definitions the articles use.
GenAI Divide
The widening separation between organisations operating AI at scale in production and those still running pilots that fail to reach it, with informal shadow adoption often outpacing governed programmes.
Related: Crossing the GenAI Divide: Solving The 95% Problem With The Complete AI Framework
See also:AI AmnestyShadow AI economyComplete AI Adoption Framework
General-purpose AI
Foundation models such as large language models that can be adapted to many tasks; under the EU AI Act they face transparency obligations and enhanced scrutiny where they pose systemic risks.
Related: Navigating the AI Regulatory Maze: A Boardroom Survival GuideWhy Boards Need to Watch the EU's General-Purpose AI Code of Practice
See also:EU AI ActFoundation modelLarge language modelSystemic risk
Generative AI
AI capable of producing new content such as text, images, or code; positioned in the guide as an enabler that augments human capabilities rather than replacing jobs.
Related: Why now is not the time to take your foot off the gasThe executive's guide to generative AI
See also:Machine learningNatural Language ProcessingLarge language model
Going concern
The judgement of whether a business can continue to meet its obligations as they fall due; placed at the constitutional core of the finance role and described as barely touched by AI.
Related: AI and the CFO: Standing Behind the Numbers the Machine Produces
Governance as a service
An enabling model where the AI CoE provides templates, frameworks and expertise that make governed AI easier than ungoverned AI, treating governance as an accelerator rather than a gate.
Related: AI Centre of Excellence: Your First 90 Days With Well-Advised Value Focus
See also:AI centre of excellence
Governance theatre
The appearance of oversight without its substance, indicated when management responds to challenge with vague reassurances and policy documents rather than evidence of governance applied in practice.
Related: AI and the Director: A Practical Playbook for Governing What You Can't Fully See
GPAI Code of Practice
A voluntary EU framework, effective August 2025, offering presumption of compliance with the EU AI Act and setting transparency, copyright, and systemic-risk obligations for general-purpose AI providers.
Related: Why Boards Need to Watch the EU's General-Purpose AI Code of Practice
Graduation criteria
Five Pillars maturity thresholds that trigger transferring a CoE function to its natural business owner (for example enterprise risk or IT) while the CoE retains strategic, forward-looking oversight.
Related: AI Centre of Excellence: Future-proofing Through Continuous Evolution
See also:Five Pillars of AI Capability
Grid actor
An AI infrastructure operator that, having built surplus behind-the-meter generation, shifts from being merely an energy consumer to a contributor exporting power and participating in electricity markets.
Related: A New Grid Actor: AI Infrastructure Is Becoming Energy Infrastructure
See also:Behind-the-meter generation
Guardrails
Output classifiers that catch defined categories of unwanted output after generation, acting as a perimeter backstop on results rather than on the reasoning that produced them.
Related: Navigating the AI Regulatory Maze: A Boardroom Survival Guide
No G entries match. or try the site search.