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More 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.
Read MoreState-Level AML Enforcement Gets Wise
Today we have another example of U.S. state regulators stepping up their own enforcement regimes against corporations for compliance failures. That’s not quite a new trend, but it is one that seems to be accelerating as the Trump Administration retreats from vigorous corporate enforcement generally. Let’s take a look. What happened? The states of New…
Read MoreNotes From #RISK Conference
This week I had the good fortune to attend the #RISK New York conference, a two-day event where 300-ish audit, risk, and compliance professionals gathered to talk shop about the evolving challenges of GRC and risk management. We had lots to discuss and I took lots of notes, so let me jot down a few…
Read MoreCompliance at Small Companies
Earlier this week I had the privilege of speaking to a law school class about corporate compliance programs, and specifically about how compliance officers at small companies can succeed in the job when they typically have precious few resources to do it. That’s a terrific subject to explore, so let me recap some of my…
Read MoreHertz Lessons on AI Governance
I didn’t plan on writing about artificial intelligence again so soon, but sometimes clumsy human intelligence at major corporations forces my hand. Hertz, please join us here in the spotlight today. Bring your AI adoption strategy along with you. The story is as follows. In April, car rental giant Hertz rolled out a new AI…
Read MoreOh Boy: ‘Agentic Misalignment’ Risk
Today we return to artificial intelligence, and a new report from AI software developer Anthropic that unpacks the threat of “agentic misalignment” — that is, when an AI agent behaves in ways that no longer align with what an organization wants it to do. Brace yourselves, audit and compliance teams; there are nightmarish governance and…
Read MoreNo, the FCPA Is Not ‘Back’
Folks, we need to have a conversation about all these legal bulletins, marketing emails, and conference agendas declaring that enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices is now somehow “back,” simply because the Justice Department released guidelines the other week explaining how it will consider FCPA enforcement from here forward. Snap out of it. FCPA enforcement…
Read MoreBoeing’s Report on Speakup Culture
Today we return to Boeing and the various steps it’s been taking to improve its safety and compliance culture. The company discussed those steps in an “aerospace safety report” Boeing released a few weeks ago, with lots of material on how Boeing is trying to improve its speakup culture. Let’s take a look. Boeing has…
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