As regulators clash over state and federal AI rules, Bridgenext’s Sreenivas Vemulapalli, SVP and Chief Architect of Enterprise AI, makes the case that regulatory ambiguity is no excuse to skip guardrails. In a new Built In Expert Contributor Network article, he applies cloud computing’s shared responsibility model to AI; mapping accountability across model builders, infrastructure providers, and deploying enterprises. Drawing on a real HIPAA-aligned chatbot build, he outlines six controls (data governance, explainability, audit logging, human oversight, model monitoring, and user disclosure) that let organizations innovate confidently no matter how the rules shift.