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AI Engineering: The Last Discipline Standing
The software engineering and related domains are undergoing their most dramatic transformation in decades. In discussions I have had over...


AI's Category Failure
When a technology can reshape entire industries, automate critical decisions, and potentially act autonomously in the physical world, how...


Does Your AI Strategy Pass the Ketchup Test?
A simple test to bust through the hype These days, AI providers, leaders, and evangelists claim that AI technology will transform any...


Promise Architectures: The New Guardrails for Agentic AI
As AI systems evolve from simple tools into autonomous agents capable of independent decision-making and action, we face a fundamental...


AI's Most Serious Blindspot and Bias
Working with AI over the past year opened my eyes to a systemic problem: AI systems are stuck in the past. This creates both a serious...


The New Face of AI Assurance: Why Audits and Certifications Are Not Enough
AI Assurance isn't just about checking boxes before deployment. As the European Defence Agency shows us, it's now a continuous journey...


Compliance is Probabilistic
In my three decades as a compliance engineer, I've watched our profession's obsession with check-boxes undermine effective risk...


Why Ethics Makes AI Innovation Better
Ethics in AI is fundamentally an alignment problem between technological capabilities and human values. While discussions often focus on...


Engineering Responsibility: A Practitioner's Guide to Meaningful AI Oversight
As a compliance engineer, I've watched AI transform from research curiosity to world-changing technology. What began as exciting progress...


Transforming Business Through AI: Key Insights
The business world is changing fast as companies adopt AI technology. At a recent conference that I attended, experts shared valuable...


Operational Compliance - Update
The following diagram is a vertical orientation of our Operational Compliance Model updated to better emphasize how bridging the gap...


Business Intelligence: Are We Asking the Right Question?
During our Elevate Compliance huddle this week, we explored how to transform data into compliance intelligence. Everyone agrees...


The Trinity of Trust: Monitoring, Observability, and Explainability in Modern Systems
In today's compliance landscape, organizations face mounting pressure to build reliable systems while meeting an expanding array of...


AI Risk in High-Consequence Industries: 5 Critical Challenges
The rush to implement artificial intelligence across highly-regulated sectors presents an urgent safety challenge that many organizations...


Why Engineering Matters to AI
As organizations rush to adopt artificial intelligence, one common mistake is treating AI systems like just another IT solution. After...


Artificial Intelligence Doesn't Care, You Must!
Artificial intelligence feels no remorse when it discriminates, no concern when it violates privacy, and no accountability when its...


The Cost of AI
Is the collateral damage from AI worth it, and who should decide? When it comes to AI, we appear to be “hell-bent“ towards developing...


Engineering Through AI Uncertainty
As artificial intelligence continues to advance, AI engineers face a practical challenge – how to build trustworthy systems when working...


The Emergence of AI Engineering
The Emergence of AI Engineering - Can You Hear the Music? In a compelling presentation to the ASQ chapter / KinLin Business school in...


Fighting the AI Dragon of Uncertainty
There are those who think that AI is only software. After all, we can reduce AI to a basic Turing machine, digital ones and zeros. There...


Paper Policies are Not Enough
Why do we think that paper AI policies will be enough to handle AI risk? With AI’s ability to learn and adapt, we need measures that are...


The Need for AI Mythbusters
When I read about AI in the news, and this includes social media, I am troubled by the way it is often reported. Many articles are...


The Stochastic Wrench: How AI Disrupts Our Deterministic World
When it comes to trouble, it is often a result of someone throwing a wrench into the works. This is certainly the case when it comes to...


The Limits of Paper-Based Governance in Regulating AI in Business Systems
In a world increasingly defined by the rapid advancement and integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into business systems, the...
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