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Party Alert! Boston Compliance Meetup
Calling all compliance, audit, and risk professionals around Boston: we’ll be hosting another after-work cocktail party on Wednesday, Oct. 15. All are welcome to attend, meet colleagues, and talk shop. A merry band of compliance enthusiasts in Boston (me included) try to hold these networking events every few months. Boston doesn’t have nearly as much…
Read MoreAI Chatbots and Policy Management
Compliance officers talk all the time about how artificial intelligence has the potential to transform the programs you run. Today I want to unpack an example of how that might work, courtesy of a case-study I saw last week involving AI and policy management. The company in question is a global IT services firm (23,000…
Read MoreNotes on Future of SOX Compliance
This week I’m attending the annual user conference for Workiva, maker of software for internal audit and GRC teams. This means, of course, that artificial intelligence is all over the agenda and everyone is talking about how AI will transform internal control and SOX compliance. Let’s review the notes I took. One point that came…
Read MoreWhat If Your AI ROI Fails?
We interrupt everyone’s ceaseless march into an AI-enhanced future to note a recent study which found that using artificial intelligence actually slowed down the performance of experienced software developers rather than enhanced it. For corporations itching to roll out AI tools at scale, these findings raise several questions worth pondering. The study itself comes from…
Read MoreMore Notes on the Compliance AI Freakout
Navex released its annual State of Risk & Compliance Report the other week, and I’ve been looking through the findings for insights into what’s on compliance officers’ minds these days. One issue that stood out: how compliance teams are handling artificial intelligence. We should dwell on this because, as just about every compliance officer already…
Read MoreGoverning Third-Party AI Risks
Earlier this week I attended a GRC conference in New York, York, which meant plenty of talk about challenges in cybersecurity, data management, internal control, and (of course) artificial intelligence. One interesting session explored how to manage the risks of third-party AI models within your enterprise. As usual, I took lots of notes, and pass…
Read MoreFight the Power, Job-Seekers!
Here’s some red meat for compliance professionals exasperated with fruitless and futile job searches: one of your own who decided he’d had enough, and called out a potential employer who ghosted him by name in a LinkedIn primal scream of frustration. Our new hero, our beacon of light in this dim job market, our voice…
Read MoreMore on AI Agents Taking Employee Training
Today I want to continue pulling on the thread we first uncovered last week, that ChatGPT’s latest artificial intelligence system is so advanced that employees can have it take their ethics and compliance training for them. We still have lots of implications both short- and long-term that compliance officers need to consider. For those who…
Read MoreThoughts on the Compliance Job Market
Today I want to revisit the state of the job market for compliance professionals, and will start with some breaking news: the market is still a big, roiling mess of uncertainty that’s driving everyone bananas. OK, you probably knew that already — but if we all want to preserve our sanity, it’s important for compliance…
Read MoreOn Vacation This Week
Thank you for visiting, dear readers, but Radical Compliance is taking some much-needed vacation this week. We likely won’t have any updates to the website, and no newsletter on Friday, Aug. 1. You can always send us tips at [email protected]. Otherwise, behave yourselves and we’ll be back as usual on Monday, Aug. 4.
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