Books
Plain-English books on AI, risk, and governance.
Short, practical books and primers on how to think about AI, govern it as it scales, and build tools you can trust. Written plainly by the author of Singapore's AI Risk Management Guidelines, and published on Simply Boring AI.
Foundations
Thinking in AI
A durable way to think about any AI system, across data types and tasks, so a new model or paper stops being a mystery. Plain English, no hype.
Thinking in AI (Primer)
One durable way to think about any AI system: three questions - what data, what task, which method - and the math under every model, from a line to an agent. Plain English, no hype, no code.
The Boring Reading List for Learning AI
A curated, no-hype path to actually learning AI - the courses, books, and explainers that teach how it works, from before the hype.
AI Risk & Governance
Scaling AI Governance
Three moves to collapse twenty AI governance frameworks into one backbone you can actually scale.
Scaling AI Governance (Primer)
Governance that scales is not a longer checklist. Three moves: govern to a common spine, govern with the unit that scales, govern as a system.
Boring Questions on AI Risk Management for Directors
A short, board-facing guide to AI risk: five questions to take into the next board meeting, through the financial sector's risk lens.
AI Risk Management for Risk and Compliance
The guide for the second line: how to run the AI risk-management system day to day, built around six questions to put to any first line, where risk hides, and proportionality as the one tool to cover a portfolio you cannot validate in full.
AI Risk Management for Risk and Compliance (Primer)
You have been handed AI risk, and the checklists map to everything and manage nothing. The answer in six questions, read from the second line's seat and drawn from the AIRG.
AI Risk Management for Regulators and Supervisors
How to judge a firm's AI risk management from the other side of the table, as a regulator and supervisor.
AI Risk Management for Regulators and Supervisors (Primer)
A few simple questions that tell a supervisor whether a firm's AI risk management is real.
AI Risk Management from First Principles (Primer)
AI risk management as 3 questions, not an ethics poster: what do you have, how are you managing it, who's accountable. From ML to agents, in plain English.
AI Risk Management for Agents (Primer)
You cannot review every path an AI agent might take. Govern it like a bonsai: cut the branches that must never happen, wire the rest, check with your own hands.
The Boring Reading List for AI Risk Management
A curated, no-noise starting path for AI risk and governance: six short reading lists by area, each reading with a note on why it's worth reading.
AI in Finance & Building
AI Agents for Investing
Four agent patterns, with runnable code, to build AI investing tools grounded in real data and auditable calculations - not hallucinations.
AI Agents for Investing (Primer)
Why an LLM on its own makes up your portfolio numbers, and the architecture that fixes it: buns not meat, the complexity ladder, four agent patterns. No code.
AI Agents for Forecasting (Primer)
Why an LLM cannot forecast on its own, what the real forecasting tools are, and why the rational way to use AI here is an agent that drives those tools. No code.
Agentic and Generative AI for Finance
How generative AI and agents actually work, where they help in finance, and the checks before you let them act.
Agentic and Generative AI for Finance (Primer)
How generative AI and agents work, where they help in finance, and the checks that follow, in one short read.
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