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AI, AI, Oh!
When it comes to compliance, labelling everything as AI might be a bad idea. For example, engineering has traditionally relied on...


Exploring Potential Assurance Models for AI Systems
As AI systems are increasingly embedded in critical functions across industries, ensuring their reliability, security, and performance is...


What Corporate Compliance Still Hasn't Learned
While recently listening to a podcast about leveraging AI to extract insights from complaints, it highlighted something that's long...


Third-Party AI Risk: Are You Covered?
While your organization may be committed to practising safe and responsible AI, what about your third-party partners? From suppliers and...


Implementing an AI Compliance Program: A Lean Startup Approach
AI compliance demands a fundamentally new mindset. Many organizations fall into one of two limiting perspectives: either viewing...


Toasters on Trial: The Slippery Slope of Crediting AI for Discoveries
In recent days, a thought-provoking statement was made suggesting that artificial intelligence (AI) should receive recognition for...


Proceed, but Proceed with Caution
When it comes to AI, many don’t want to hear about the risk. In fact, many go to great lengths to avoid the discussion. Some will go as...


AI Governance, Guardrails and Lampposts
At today's monthly "Elevate Compliance Webinar" participants learned strategies and methods for effectively governing artificial...


Can AI Rescue Your Project?
Project teams often find themselves caught in a cycle of constant execution, leaving little time for process improvement. This...


From Human to Machine: The Evolving Nature of Work in the Digital Age
Across the world we're witnessing a profound transformation: the continual mechanization of human work, now accelerated by the...


Navigating AI Compliance with Integrity
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is on a trajectory to revolutionize various industries, from healthcare to finance. Its ability to analyze...


Model Convergence: The Erosion of Intellectual Diversity in AI
As artificial intelligence models strive for greater accuracy, an unexpected phenomenon is emerging: the convergence of responses across...


Ethical Decision Making Involving AI
In the domain of Corporate Ethics and Compliance, one hammer is used to establish ethical behaviour – training. In many cases, this...


A Safety Model for AI Systems
As a framework, I thought Nancy Leveson’s Hierarchical Safety Model which incorporates Rasmussen’s risk ladder offers the right level of...


Three Conditions for Responsible and Safe AI Practice
Many organizations are embracing AI to advance their goals. However, ensuring the public's well-being requires AI practices to meet three...


The Critical Role of Professional Engineers in Canada's AI Landscape
Rapid advancements in AI technology present a double-edged sword: exciting opportunities alongside significant risks. While Canada is a...


The Need for LEAN AI Regulation
There's a growing urgency to establish regulations for artificial intelligence (AI). Public concerns about potential harm and human...


The AI Gold Rush: When Customers Become Collateral Damage in the Search for Data
The tech landscape these days is reminiscent of a gold rush, with companies scrambling for a new treasure: customer data. But in this...


Is AI Sustainable?
In this article we will explore sustainability and how it relates to AI technologies. To get there we will first consider AI Safety and...


Are AI-Enhanced KPIs Smarter?
Using Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to regulate and drive operational functions is table stakes for effective organizations and for...


Smarter Than Human AI - Still a Long Way to Go?
The rapidly advancing field of artificial intelligence, particularly large language models (LLMs), is constantly pushing the boundaries...


AI in PSM: A Double-Edged Sword for Process Safety Management
Process safety management (PSM) stands as a vital defence against hazards in high-risk industries. Yet, even the most robust systems...


The Greatest AI Risk – AI Agency
When it comes to Artificial Intelligence what worries many is not so much how smart it might become but instead what it might do with the...


Protect your Value Chain from AI Risk
This year will mark the end of unregulated use of AI for many organizations. This has already happened in the insurance sector (State of...
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