Artificial intelligence keeps improving at all sorts of things – including how to challenge corporate ethics and compliance programs. Even while you may still be struggling to tame the risks of generative AI, its more...more
For many years, corporate compliance officers have followed a certain natural process. First, regulators adopt a new rule, then you decipher how the arrival of that new rule might require changes to your policies, procedures...more
3/26/2025
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Artificial intelligence reached another milestone at the start of February, this one particularly relevant for corporate compliance officers: on February 2, 2025, the first five articles of the EU AI Act went into effect....more
2/11/2025
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California sets the pace for all sorts of trends in the world – so perhaps compliance officers should take note of two recent advisories the state’s attorney general published on artificial intelligence. They capture a lot...more
2/5/2025
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Ask a compliance officer to name their top worry about artificial intelligence, and odds are they will blurt out something to do with privacy. That doesn’t just tell us what the risks of AI are – it also gives us hints about...more
The other week I was talking with a chief compliance officer, and asked her what she believes her biggest challenge will be in 2025. “Artificial intelligence,” she immediately replied. “Our IT department thinks they control...more
A few weeks back the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) published a bulletin urging financial firms to do better at identifying deepfakes that fraudsters might use to evade customer due diligence programs. The...more
11/27/2024
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Compliance officers spend lots of time these days worrying about how their own company’s use of artificial intelligence might draw the ire of regulators, but you have another dimension of AI risk to worry about, too. You need...more
CISOs, compliance officers, corporate boards, and other senior executives are quick to worry these days about the risks of artificial intelligence – but fear not! Some of the brightest minds in technology have built a tool to...more
9/19/2024
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Corporate compliance officers have been bracing for regulation of how companies can use artificial intelligence in their daily business operations. Now we have a fresh glimpse of what that regulatory landscape might look like...more
The rise of artificial intelligence – and specifically of generative AI, which can create entirely new images, sounds, and text with just a few prompts – was the most important technology development of this decade. The...more
One year ago, compliance officers began 2023 dazzled by the potential of artificial intelligence, and braced for new regulations to govern how corporate organizations use AI. Then a funny thing happened: governments didn’t...more
ChatGPT really is a marvelous technology – an artificial intelligence designed to answer just about any question a person might ask it – and yet, somehow, it leaves CISOs and compliance officers with even more questions....more