Notes From #RISK Conference

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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…

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Hertz Lessons on AI Governance

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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…

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Oh Boy: ‘Agentic Misalignment’ Risk

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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…

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DC Dithers Over PCAOB, State AI Laws

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Time to revisit the policy-making nuttiness in Washington! Several measures relevant to compliance and audit professionals have gone through twists and turns lately as Republicans struggle to pass a budget bill that nobody likes, and we should ponder the potential implications for your compliance efforts back home. First (and somewhat to my surprise) Senate Republicans…

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Thoughts on the AI Job-Pocalypse 

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By now you may have seen one of numerous media reports recently that artificial intelligence is poised to decimate the white-collar job market in coming years. I’m not sure I agree with those dire reports, but clearly AI is going to transform how white-collar workers — such as compliance and audit professionals — arc through…

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Uh-Oh: AI’s New Whistleblower Impulses

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Here’s a tough one for all you compliance professionals who like to think about artificial intelligence: how would you handle an AI agent in your enterprise that, all on its own, decides to report suspected misconduct directly to regulators?  This is no longer a theoretical question; it’s a possibility embedded within Claude Opus 4, the…

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GOP Moves Ban on State AI Laws

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Another bold move from Congress while you were sleeping last night: an important House committee voted to support a 10-year ban on states enforcing any laws or regulations they adopt for artificial intelligence. The vote happened at the House Energy & Commerce Committee, which was marking up various pieces of legislation destined to be part…

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Troubling New Data on AI Risks

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Today I want to go back to artificial intelligence and some of the policy management and corporate culture challenges that the technology keeps posing. KPMG recently released a wide-ranging survey of how people view and use AI, with statistics that could cast a long shadow over your own AI compliance efforts. Let’s take a look.…

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Compliance, AI, and Corporate Strategy

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Compliance officers are always striving to articulate their role in the setting of corporate strategy. Over the weekend I stumbled across an excellent example of how compliance officers might do that — even though the article’s principal point was that corporate leaders shouldn’t define any strategy for everyone’s favorite issue of the day, artificial intelligence.…

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Talking AI and ‘Model Risk’

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Today we have a heads up for all you compliance officers in the financial services sector: Radical Compliance and Forensic Risk Alliance will be hosting a webinar on Jan. 29 exploring the risks of artificial intelligence, and the new governance and risk management methods you’ll need to develop to keep those AI risks in check.…

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