Struggling to brief your board on AI risk without slipping into vague promises? This lesson equips you to describe risk‑based controls with precision and to define control effectiveness in measurable, audit‑ready terms. You’ll get clear executive frames aligned to the EU AI Act and NIST AI RMF, targeted examples and sentence templates, plus short practice items to sharpen proportionality, HITL authority, and evidence standards. By the end, you’ll craft concise, defensible control statements that stand up to governance, audit, and external scrutiny.