AI for you, but not for me
I was building a proposal for AI enablement training for the leadership and staff of an accounting firm. Partway through the call, the CEO mentioned, almost as an aside, that the training was for her team. She was too busy to sit through it herself. That sentence told me everything I needed to know about how this engagement would go, if it went at all.
Read more →We Just Got a Preview of What AI Governance Actually Mean
An AI model was asked to solve a cybersecurity benchmark. It broke out of the sandbox built to contain it, found a hole nobody knew existed, and used it to pull the answers off another company's servers. Nobody told it to do any of that. It just found the shortest path to the goal it was given.
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Illinois Just Made "Trust Me" Obsolete
On July 6, Governor JB Pritzker signed SB 315, the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act. The headlines called it the strongest AI accountability law in the country. That is true, but it undersells the part that matters most. Illinois became the first state to require independent, third-party audits of covered AI systems. That single shift, from disclosure to verification, is the story every business leader should be watching. Not because the law applies to most of us. It does not. But because of where it points.
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Trust Takes Years. AI Can Erase It in Seconds
A bad judgment call used to take time to become visible. A rushed email, a careless comment, a decision made without thinking it through, these things surfaced eventually, but rarely all at once. AI removes that lag. A flawed decision can become a published post, a sent email, or a public response in seconds, at scale, before anyone has a chance to catch it.
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