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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...
Raimund Laqua
3 min read


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...
Raimund Laqua
6 min read


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


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...
Raimund Laqua
1 min read


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...
Raimund Laqua
3 min read


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...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read


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...
Raimund Laqua
3 min read


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...
Raimund Laqua
1 min read


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...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read


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


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...
Raimund Laqua
9 min read


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...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read


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...
Raimund Laqua
1 min read


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...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read


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...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read


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...
Raimund Laqua
3 min read


Compliance: Beyond the Fish Tank
When I was young my family bought a fish tank. Family Fish Tank It was bigger than a fish bowl, but not by much. It was just large...
Raimund Laqua
5 min read


When Words Are Not Enough: The Limitations of AI in Understanding Reality
When Words are Not Enough: The Limitations of AI In the race toward artificial general intelligence, we find ourselves at a curious...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read


Will AI Replace Professionals?
Professional practice represents far more than technical expertise or procedural knowledge. It embodies a complex integration of...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read


Compliance Must Be Intelligent
AI Safety Labels There is an idea floating around the internet and within some regulatory bodies that we should apply safety labels to AI...
Raimund Laqua
3 min read


AI Risk: When Possibilities Become Exponential
Artificial Intelligence (AI) risk databases are growing, AI risk taxonomies and classifications are expanding, and AI risk registers are...
Raimund Laqua
1 min read


The Evolution of AI Systems: From Learning to Self-Creation
In today's world of artificial intelligence, not all systems are created equal. As we push the boundaries of technological innovation,...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read


Safety of the Intended Functionality: Re-imagining Safety in Intelligent Systems
When it comes to intelligent systems, safety has outgrown its traditional boundaries of risk assessment. While the traditional approach...
Raimund Laqua
3 min read


AI Safety Approach (ISO PAS 8800)
As a Compliance Engineer, I'm focused on developing robust methodologies for emerging compliance challenges. A recent IEEE webinar that I...
Raimund Laqua
2 min read
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