EU AI Act Compliance for U.S. Companies
A lot of U.S. companies are going to misunderstand the EU AI Act until it is too late. They will assume it only applies to European companies. They will assume it only applies to OpenAI, Google, Meta, Anthropic, Microsoft, and other model providers. They will assume it only matters if they are building their own […]
AI in Employment Decisions: Hiring, Promotion, Bias Audits, and State Law Risk
Artificial intelligence is already inside the employment process. It is screening resumes. Ranking candidates. Summarizing interviews. Drafting job descriptions. Scoring applicants. Analyzing video interviews. Matching people to roles. Reviewing performance. Monitoring productivity. Recommending promotions. Flagging employees for retention risk. Suggesting compensation. Prioritizing training. Evaluating workforce sentiment. Automating HR workflows. Some of those tools are formally […]
AI Vendor Due Diligence Checklist: What Companies Need to Ask Before Buying AI Software
Most companies will not build every AI system they use. They will buy it. They will subscribe to it. They will turn it on inside software they already use. They will connect to it through an API. They will allow employees, vendors, agencies, contractors, and business units to use it in workflows that already process […]
AI Impact Assessments: What Companies Need to Document Before Deploying AI
Most companies are moving too fast with artificial intelligence. They are buying AI tools, turning on AI features, connecting models to customer data, using copilots, launching chatbots, automating workflows, ranking applicants, scoring leads, summarizing calls, generating content, analyzing behavior, and letting vendors process sensitive information before anyone has documented the risk. That is the dangerous […]
SignalTrace Shows the Next Privacy Fight Is Vehicle and Device Tracking
A new surveillance technology being promoted to law enforcement is raising a major privacy question: what happens when license plate readers no longer just track cars, but also track the devices traveling inside them? Leonardo, a U.S. defense and security contractor, is promoting a technology called SignalTrace that is designed to connect automatic license plate […]
Gartner Says AI Governance Comes Before AI Hype
AI is moving faster than most organizations can govern it. That is the real warning behind Gartner’s latest comments on artificial intelligence. Companies are under pressure to deploy generative AI, launch agents, automate workflows, and show quick business value. Executives want proof. Boards want strategy. Vendors are pushing new tools. Employees are already experimenting with […]
AI Governance Tools
AI governance tools are becoming necessary because AI is spreading faster than most companies can track it. That is the real issue. Most companies do not have one neat AI system sitting in one department with one owner and one approved use case. They have AI scattered everywhere. HR has AI inside recruiting software. Marketing […]
Updating Data Privacy Tools for the AI Era: Why Zero Trust Needs a Data-Centric Boost to Slash Cybersecurity Risks
In the high-stakes world of cybersecurity, numbers don’t lie. Last year, the average data breach cost organizations around $4.44 million, with healthcare incidents hitting a staggering $7.42 million and taking the longest to detect and contain, according to IBM and Ponemon Institute research. As artificial intelligence reshapes how data moves and who — or what […]
AI Inventory: The First Step in AI Governance
Most companies do not have an AI governance problem because they built one powerful artificial intelligence system. They have an AI governance problem because artificial intelligence is already scattered across the business and nobody has a complete list of where it lives. That is the real starting point. Before a company can comply with the […]
NIST AI Risk Management Framework
The NIST AI Risk Management Framework launched in January 2023 with language so carefully neutral it could have been written by committee — because it was. Two years later, something unexpected has happened: it has quietly become the closest thing the United States has to a de facto AI governance standard, cited in state legislation, […]