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AI Governance & Digital Risk April 24, 2025

Adaptation Requires Detection: The Governance Problem in Personalized Workplace Accessibility

What the proposition assumes The case for adaptive accessibility is straightforward and appealing. Rather than building one interface and asking every employee to conform to it, deploy systems that adjust themselves to each person, continuously and without being asked. Accessibility…

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Agentic Commerce April 13, 2025

Exempt from the Paperwork, Liable for the Decision: Artificial Intelligence Governance for Small Organizations and Nonprofits

The asymmetry The conventional account of artificial intelligence regulation and small organizations is that compliance burdens fall hardest on those least able to bear them, and that thresholds and exemptions exist to correct the imbalance. The account is half right,…

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Strategic Risk April 4, 2025

Unpriced Risk Is Not Return: Why Most Artificial Intelligence Business Cases in Human Resources Fail as Business Cases

The claims and the measurement that would be needed to support them The standard business case for artificial intelligence in human resources has stabilized around five claims: faster and better hiring, lower administrative cost, predictive workforce planning, improved retention, and…

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AI Governance & Digital Risk April 2, 2025

The Guidance Is Gone but the Statute Is Not: AI, Disability, and Employment Decisions After the January 2025 Withdrawals

On January 23, 2025, Executive Order 14179, Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence, revoked the prior administration’s AI executive order and directed federal agencies to review and roll back AI-related policy. Within days, the practical consequences reached the…

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