Posts Tagged ‘artificial intelligence’
Another Example of AI’s Issues
If you’ve been following news about artificial intelligence lately, then by now you may already have seen this: an Asian-American computer scientist at MIT, who uploaded a picture of herself into an AI tool and asked it to make her look “more professional.” The software turned the woman white. The computer scientist in question, Rona…
Read MoreGreat Example of Ethics, Compliance, and AI
Anyone looking for another example of how artificial intelligence is going to raise a host of ethics and compliance issues for corporations, look no further than today’s New York Times and an article about how British retailers are using facial recognition to crack down on shoplifters. The full article is well worth your time if…
Read MoreMy ChatGPT Compliance Misadventure
Today I want to relay a dispatch from the front lines of artificial intelligence and corporate compliance. Namely, I’ve been trying to use ChatGPT for a compliance project, and ChatGPT has pretty much made a mess of things. The project itself is straightforward. A client has asked me to find the texts of whistleblower laws…
Read MoreSome Compliance Principles for ChatGPT
The other week I moderated a webinar on ChatGPT’s implications for corporate compliance programs. ChatGPT itself was not invited to participate, but no worries: we humans on the webinar had plenty to say about its compliance risks all by ourselves. Those worries are well-founded. ChatGPT and its ilk have taken the technology world by storm…
Read MoreGetting Started on Governing AI Issues
Today we are going to keep looking at artificial intelligence and how corporations can get ahead of the risks thereof. Our previous post on AI was primarily a list of potential risks that could run rings around your company if you’re not careful; so what steps can the board and senior executives take to prevent…
Read MoreMore on Managing ‘ChatGPT Risk’
Internal auditors, compliance officers, and risk managers looking for more perspective on how artificial intelligence might affect your lives, look no further. A cybersecurity research institute has published a fascinating paper on the potential risks from ChatGPT, with lots of unsettling implications for risk assurance professionals. The paper, titled “I, Chatbot,” comes from Recorded Future,…
Read MoreAI Risks Keep Racing Ahead
Today I want to talk about the advantages and perils that artificial intelligence can pose to corporate compliance programs. After all, everyone else seems to be talking about the potential of AI these days, including the AI programs themselves. You may have seen that the latest AI darling is ChatGPT, a natural language chatbot released…
Read MoreI Talked Compliance With BlenderBot
Everyone knows I’ll talk ethics and compliance with just about anybody. So when Facebook decided to roll out its new AI-driven chatbox, of course I swung by its website and started asking the bot what it thought of corporate compliance programs. The bot, apparently named BlenderBot 3, was launched on Monday. People can strike up…
Read MoreThoughts on AI From the Audit Perspective
The other week I had a post about the risk management challenges corporations will face as they integrate artificial intelligence into business operations. Several days later, my friend the Cybersecurity Auditor called me. “Dude,” he said, “I have many issues with AI and I think we’re missing another important point here.” OK, I replied, and…
Read MoreGrappling With Artificial Intelligence
Later this week I’ll have the privilege to moderate a panel discussion on artificial intelligence at the Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics’ 2021 conference — and as fate would have it, COSO published guidance last week on the risk management challenges around AI. So let’s dig into the subject, since clearly the universe is…
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